2 Kings 15:1:22 Kgs.15.1.W2TAB
עֶשְׂרִ֤ים
eserim
“twenty”
- Transliteration
- e-se-RIM
- Extended
- eh-seh-REEM
- IPA
- /ʕɛs.rim/
Meaning by language
- English
- twenty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
e-se-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
bish-NAT e-se-RIM va-SHE-va
- clause
bish-NAT e-se-RIM va-SHE-va sha-NA le-ya-rav-AM ME-lekh yis-ra-EL
- sentence
bish-NAT e-se-RIM va-SHE-va sha-NA le-ya-rav-AM ME-lekh yis-ra-EL ma-LAKH a-zar-YA ben-a-mats-YA ME-lekh ye-hu-DA
Exegesis
The numerals are stated additively—esrim vasheva {עֶשְׂרִים וָשֶׁבַע | ʿeśrîm wāšéḇaʿ} ‘twenty and seven’—followed by shanah {שָׁנָה | šānāh} ‘year’, together functioning idiomatically as “twenty-seventh year.”
In context — 2 Kings 15:1
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign .
About this coordinate
2 Kings 15:1:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 2 Kings 15:1, so the Hebrew word עֶשְׂרִ֤ים (eserim) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Kgs.15.1.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.15.1.W2.S1) and character.