2 Kings 15:19:42 Kgs.15.19.W4TAB
עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ
alhaarets
“against the land”
- Transliteration
- al-ha-A-rets
- Extended
- ahl-hah-AA-rehts
- IPA
- /ʕal.haˈʔaːrɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- against the land
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-ha-A-rets
- clause
BA PUL ME-lekh-a-SHUR al-ha-A-rets va-yit-TEN me-na-KHEM le-PUL E-lef kik-KAR-ka-SEF
- sentence
BA PUL ME-lekh-a-SHUR al-ha-A-rets va-yit-TEN me-na-KHEM le-PUL E-lef kik-KAR-ka-SEF lih-YOT ya-DAV it-TO le-ha-kha-ZIK ham-mam-la-KHA be-ya-DO
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase al-haaretz {עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ | ʿal-hāʾāreṣ} ‘against the land’ frames the adversarial action.
In context — 2 Kings 15:19
Pul king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him, to support the kingdom in his hand.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 15:19:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Kings 15:19, so the Hebrew word עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ (alhaarets) 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.15.19.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.15.19.W4.S1) and character.