2 Kings 15:35:82 Kgs.15.35.W8TAB
וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים
umekatterim
“and making offerings as smoke or burning incense”
- Transliteration
- u-me-kat-te-RIM
- Extended
- oo-meh-kahṭ-ṭeh-REEM
- IPA
- /uːməqaṭ.ṭəˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and making offerings as smoke or burning incense
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| 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
u-me-kat-te-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
me-zab-be-KHIM u-me-kat-te-RIM
- clause
RAK ha-ba-MOT LO sa-RU OD ha-AM me-zab-be-KHIM u-me-kat-te-RIM ba-ba-MOT
- sentence
RAK ha-ba-MOT LO sa-RU OD ha-AM me-zab-be-KHIM u-me-kat-te-RIM ba-ba-MOT HU ba-NA et-SHA-ar BET-ye-ho-VAH ha-el-YON
Exegesis
A participial circumstantial clause ha-am mezabbechim u-me-katterim ba-bamot {הָעָם מְזַבְּחִים וּמְקַטְּרִים בַּבָּמוֹת | hā-ʿām məzabbēḥîm ūməqāṭṭērîm bā-bāmōt} ‘the people sacrificing and burning incense on the high places’ conveys habitual worship.
Root and etymology
consonantsQof–Tet–Resh
“to make smoke, burn incense”
In context — 2 Kings 15:35
However, the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD .
About this coordinate
2 Kings 15:35:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Kings 15:35, so the Hebrew word וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים (umekatterim) 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.15.35.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.15.35.W8.S1) and character.