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
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Dalet | d as in door |
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Word in context
- word
AD
- 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
- 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 context — 2 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.