2 Kings 17:27:52 Kgs.17.27.W5TAB
שָׁ֙מָּה֙
shama
“there”
- Transliteration
- SHA-ma
- Extended
- SHAA-mah
- IPA
- /ˈʃaːm.maː/
Meaning by language
- English
- there
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
SHA-ma
- phraseyour reading level
ho-li-KHU SHA-ma
- clause
va-yE-tsav ME-lekh-a-SHUR le-MOR ho-li-KHU SHA-ma e-KHAD me-ha-ko-ha-NIM a-SHER hig-li-TE-tem mi-SHAM ve-yel-KHU ve-YESH-ve SHAM
- sentence
va-yE-tsav ME-lekh-a-SHUR le-MOR ho-li-KHU SHA-ma e-KHAD me-ha-ko-ha-NIM a-SHER hig-li-TE-tem mi-SHAM ve-yel-KHU ve-YESH-ve SHAM ve-yo-REM ET-mish-PA-t e-lo-HE ha-A-rets
Exegesis
The Hiphil imperative holikhu {הֹלִ֤יכוּ | hô-lî-ḵû} ‘bring’ issues a causative command with the locative adverb shamma {שָׁ֙מָּה֙ | šammâ} ‘there’.
Root and etymology
lettersšīn–mēm–ʿayin
“to hear, obey”
In context — 2 Kings 17:27
And the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Bring there one of the priests whom you exiled from there, and let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the custom of the God of the land.”
About this coordinate
2 Kings 17:27:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 2 Kings 17:27, so the Hebrew word שָׁ֙מָּה֙ (shama) 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.17.27.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.27.W5.S1) and character.