2 Kings 15:36:82 Kgs.15.36.W8TAB
עַל־סֵ֛פֶר
alsefer
“on the book of”
- Transliteration
- al-SE-fer
- Extended
- ahl-SEH-fehr
- IPA
- /ʕalˈseː.fɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- on the book of
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 | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-SE-fer
- clause
ha-LO-HEM ke-tu-VIM al-SE-fer div-REI ha-ya-MIM le-mal-KHEI ye-hu-DA
- sentence
ve-YE-ter div-REI yo-TAM a-SHEr a-SA ha-LO-HEM ke-tu-VIM al-SE-fer div-REI ha-ya-MIM le-mal-KHEI ye-hu-DA
Exegesis
The participle ketuvim {כְּתוּבִים | kə-tū-vím} ‘written’ conveys the recorded state, and the prepositional chain al sefer divrei hayamim lemalchei Yehudah {עַל־סֵפֶר דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים לְמַלְכֵי יְהוּדָה | ʿal-sē-per dib-rế ha-yā-mim lə-mal-khế yə-hū-dāh} ‘in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah’ locates the archival source. The translation preserves Hebrew word order for fidelity and renders passive structures and the rhetorical question in idiomatic English.
Root and etymology
s-p-rsamekh–pe–resh
“to count or write”
In context — 2 Kings 15:36
Now the remainder of Jotham’s deeds , which he performed—are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
About this coordinate
2 Kings 15:36:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Kings 15:36, so the Hebrew word עַל־סֵ֛פֶר (alsefer) 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.15.36.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.15.36.W8.S1) and character.