2 Kings 17:41:182 Kgs.17.41.W18TAB

עַ֖ד

ad

until

Transliteration
AD
Extended
AHD
IPA
/ʕad/

Meaning by language

English
until

Alphabet Analysis

Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Daletd as in door

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Word in context

  1. word

    AD

  2. clause

    gam-be-NE-hem u-ve-NE ve-NE ve-ne-HEM ka-a-SHER a-SU a-vo-TAM HEM o-SIM AD ha-YOM ha-ZE

  3. sentence

    va-yi-HYU ha-go-YIM ha-E-le ye-re-IM et-Ye-ho-VAH ve-et-pe-si-LE-hem ha-YU o-ve-DIM gam-be-NE-hem u-ve-NE ve-NE ve-ne-HEM ka-a-SHER a-SU a-vo-TAM HEM o-SIM AD ha-YOM ha-ZE

Exegesis

The temporal boundary ʿad hayyôm hazzeh {עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה | ʿad hayyôm hazzeh} ‘until this day’ frames the practice as continuing into the narrator’s present, which is reflected in English with present-oriented wording.

Root and etymology

y-‘-dyod–ayin–dalet

to warn, testify, appoint

In context2 Kings 17:41

And these nations feared the LORD , and they were serving their idols ; also their children and their grandchildren, just as their fathers did, they are doing to this day.

About this coordinate

2 Kings 17:41:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of 2 Kings 17:41, so the Hebrew word עַ֖ד (ad) 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.17.41.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.41.W18.S1) and character.