2 Kings 16:17:72 Kgs.16.17.W7TAB
מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶם֙
mealehem
“from upon them”
- Transliteration
- me-a-le-HEM
- Extended
- mee-ah-leh-HEHM
- IPA
- /meː.ʕăleːˈhɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- from upon them
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
me-a-le-HEM
- phraseyour reading level
va-ya-SAR me-a-le-HEM
- clause
va-ye-KA-tsets ha-ME-lekh a-KHAZ et-ha-mis-ge-ROT ha-me-kho-NOT va-ya-SAR me-a-le-HEM ve-et-et-ha-ki-YOR ve-et-ha-YAM ho-RID me-AL ha-ba-KAR ha-ne-KHO-shet a-SHER ta-khe-TE-ha
- sentence
va-ye-KA-tsets ha-ME-lekh a-KHAZ et-ha-mis-ge-ROT ha-me-kho-NOT va-ya-SAR me-a-le-HEM ve-et-et-ha-ki-YOR ve-et-ha-YAM ho-RID me-AL ha-ba-KAR ha-ne-KHO-shet a-SHER ta-khe-TE-ha va-yit-TEN o-TO AL mar-TSE-fet a-va-NIM
Exegesis
Spatial relationships are established by the prepositional phrases mealeihem {מֵעֲלֵיהֶם | mē-ʿă-lê-hēm} ‘from upon them’ and me’al {מֵעַל | mē-ʿal} ‘from upon’.
In context — 2 Kings 16:17
And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands, and he removed the basin from upon them, and he brought down the Sea from on top of the bronze oxen which were under it, and he placed it upon a pavement of stones.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 16:17:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Kings 16:17, so the Hebrew word מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶם֙ (mealehem) 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.16.17.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.16.17.W7.S1) and character.