2 Kings 16:18:12 Kgs.16.18.W1TAB
וְאֶת־מיסך
veetmisakh
“and the covering”
- Transliteration
- ve-ET-mi-sakh
- Extended
- veh-EET-mih-sahkh
- IPA
- /vəˈʔeːt.miˈsax/
Meaning by language
- English
- and the covering
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-ET-mi-sakh
- phraseyour reading level
ve-ET-mi-sakh MU-sakh ha-sha-BAT
- clause
ve-ET-mi-sakh MU-sakh ha-sha-BAT a-sher-ba-NU ba-BA-yit ve-ET-me-VO ha-ME-lekh ha-khi-tso-NA he-SEV BET Ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
ve-ET-mi-sakh MU-sakh ha-sha-BAT a-sher-ba-NU ba-BA-yit ve-ET-me-VO ha-ME-lekh ha-khi-tso-NA he-SEV BET Ye-ho-VAH mi-pe-NE ME-lekh a-SHUR
Exegesis
The verse opens with a fronted series of objects marked by repeated wə-ʾet {וְאֶת־ | wə-ʾet} ‘and (definite direct object marker)’, signaling that multiple temple features are affected before the main verb appears.
The initial phrase preserves a scribal reading pair: misakh {מיסך | miśkāḵ} ‘covering’ (ketiv) alongside musakh {מוּסַךְ | mûsāḵ} ‘covered structure’ (qere), indicating an established tradition about how to read this temple installation; English renders the combined idea as a “covered way.”
In context — 2 Kings 16:18
And the Sabbath covered way that they had built in the house, and the king’s outer entrance, he diverted from the house of the LORD because of the king of Assyria.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 16:18:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 2 Kings 16:18, so the Hebrew word וְאֶת־מיסך (veetmisakh) 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.16.18.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.16.18.W1.S1) and character.