2 Kings 15:21:22 Kgs.15.21.W2TAB
דִּבְרֵ֥י
divre
“of the matters of”
- Transliteration
- div-RE
- Extended
- dihv-REE
- IPA
- /divˈreː/
Meaning by language
- English
- of the matters of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
div-RE
- phraseyour reading level
div-RE me-na-KHEM
- clause
ve-YE-ter div-RE me-na-KHEM ve-KHOL-a-SHER a-SA
- sentence
ve-YE-ter div-RE me-na-KHEM ve-KHOL-a-SHER a-SA ha-LO-heM ke-tu-VIM al-SE-fer div-RE ha-ya-MIM le-mal-KHE yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
This is followed by divrei {דִּבְרֵ֥י | dib-rê} “words” in construct relation with menachem {מְנַחֵ֖ם | mə-nā-ḥêm}, forming a possessive.
The prepositional phrase al sefer {עַל־סֵ֛פֶר | ʿal sê-pher} “upon the book” links to the source text, while divrei hayamim {דִּבְרֵ֥י הַיָּמִ֖ים | dib-rê hā-yā-mîm} “words of the days” serves as a technical term for annals, and lemalchei Yisrael {לְמַלְכֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל | lə-mal-ḵê yiś-rā-ʼēl} “to the kings of Israel” identifies scope. This structure exemplifies the Deuteronomistic historiographical formula for citing archival sources, and the translation places the passive verb early for natural English syntax.
Root and etymology
Rootdalet–bet–resh
“word, affair”
In context — 2 Kings 15:21
And the rest of the words of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
About this coordinate
2 Kings 15:21:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 2 Kings 15:21, so the Hebrew word דִּבְרֵ֥י (divre) 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.15.21.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.15.21.W2.S1) and character.