2 Kings 17:37:82 Kgs.17.37.W8TAB
תִּשְׁמְר֥וּן
tishmerun
“you shall keep”
- Transliteration
- tish-me-RUN
- Extended
- tihsh-meh-RUUN
- IPA
- /tiʃməˈruːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- you shall keep
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
tish-me-RUN
- phraseyour reading level
tish-me-RUN la-a-SOT
- clause
ve-ET-ha-khu-KIM ve-ET-ha-mish-pa-TIM ve-ha-to-RA ve-ha-mits-VA a-SHER ka-TAV la-KHEM tish-me-RUN la-a-SOT kal-ha-ya-MIM
- sentence
ve-ET-ha-khu-KIM ve-ET-ha-mish-pa-TIM ve-ha-to-RA ve-ha-mits-VA a-SHER ka-TAV la-KHEM tish-me-RUN la-a-SOT kal-ha-ya-MIM ve-LO ti-re-U e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM
Exegesis
The main verb tišmərûn {תִּשְׁמְרוּן | tišmərûn} ‘you shall keep’ is a Qal imperfect second person plural, linked by the infinitive laʿăšôt {לַעֲשׂוֹת | laʿăšôt} ‘to do’, modified by the temporal phrase kāl-hayyāmîm {כָּל־הַיָּמִים | kāl-hayyāmîm} ‘all the days’.
Root and etymology
sh-m-rshin–mem–resh
“to keep, guard”
In context — 2 Kings 17:37
And the statutes and the judgments and the law and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall be careful to keep and do forever; and you shall not fear other gods.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 17:37:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Kings 17:37, so the Hebrew word תִּשְׁמְר֥וּן (tishmerun) 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.17.37.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.37.W8.S1) and character.