2 Kings 16:19:82 Kgs.16.19.W8TAB
עַל־סֵ֛פֶר
alsefer
“upon the book of”
- Transliteration
- al-SE-fer
- Extended
- ahl-SEH-fehr
- IPA
- /ʕalˈseːfɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon 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-RE ha-ya-MIM le-mal-KHE ye-hu-DA
- sentence
ve-YE-ter div-RE a-KHAZ a-SHER a-SA ha-LO-HEM ke-tu-VIM al-SE-fer div-RE ha-ya-MIM le-mal-KHE ye-hu-DA
Exegesis
The phrase al-sefer divrei hayamim {עַל־סֵ֛פֶר דִּבְרֵ֥י הַיָּמִ֖ים | ʿal-se-fer dî-vrē ha-yā-mîm} specifies the archival source, and lemalchei Yehudah {לְמַלְכֵ֥י יְהוּדָֽה | le-mal-khê yĕ-hū-dāh} “for the kings of Judah” identifies the dynastic scope, completing the historiographical formula.
Root and etymology
s-p-rsame
“to recount, write”
In context — 2 Kings 16:19
Now the remaining acts of Ahaz, what he did—are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
About this coordinate
2 Kings 16:19:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Kings 16:19, 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.16.19.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.16.19.W8.S1) and character.