2 Kings 17:7:22 Kgs.17.7.W2TAB
כִּֽי־חָטְא֤וּ
kikhateu
“that they sinned”
- Transliteration
- ki-kha-TE-u
- Extended
- kee-khaa-TEH-oo
- IPA
- /kiː.ħaːˈtˤuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- that they sinned
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ki-kha-TE-u
- phraseyour reading level
ki-kha-TE-u ve-NEI-yis-ra-EL
- clause
va-ye-HI ki-kha-TE-u ve-NEI-yis-ra-EL la-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI-hem ham-ma-a-LE o-TAM me-E-rets mits-ra-YIM mit-ta-KHAT YAD par-O ME-lekh-mits-ra-YIM
- sentence
va-ye-HI ki-kha-TE-u ve-NEI-yis-ra-EL la-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI-hem ham-ma-a-LE o-TAM me-E-rets mits-ra-YIM mit-ta-KHAT YAD par-O ME-lekh-mits-ra-YIM va-yir-E-u e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM
Exegesis
The causal linkage is then made explicit by ki-khateu {כִּֽי־חָטְא֤וּ | kî-ḥāṭʾû} ‘because they sinned’, placing Israel’s guilt as the ground for what follows in the chapter.
Root and etymology
consonantsChet–Tet–Aleph
“to miss, to sin”
In context — 2 Kings 17:7
And it happened that, because the sons of Israel sinned against the LORD their God , the One who brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, they feared other gods.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 17:7:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 2 Kings 17:7, so the Hebrew word כִּֽי־חָטְא֤וּ (kikhateu) 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.17.7.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.7.W2.S1) and character.