2 Kings 17:8:52 Kgs.17.8.W5TAB
הוֹרִ֣ישׁ
horish
“he caused to dispossess”
- Transliteration
- ho-RISH
- Extended
- hoh-REESH
- IPA
- /hoːˈriːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- he caused to dispossess
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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Word in context
- word
ho-RISH
- phraseyour reading level
ho-RISH ye-ho-VAH
- clause
va-YE-le-KHU be-khu-KOT ha-go-YIM a-SHER ho-RISH ye-ho-VAH mip-pe-NE be-NE yis-ra-EL
- sentence
va-YE-le-KHU be-khu-KOT ha-go-YIM a-SHER ho-RISH ye-ho-VAH mip-pe-NE be-NE yis-ra-EL u-mal-KHE yis-ra-EL a-SHER A-SU
Exegesis
A first relative clause, asher horish YHWH {אֲשֶׁר הוֹרִ֣ישׁ יְהוָ֔ה | ʾă·šer hôrîš YHWH} ‘which the LORD dispossessed,’ anchors those nations in YHWH’s prior act of removing them “from before” Israel, making Israel’s imitation a reversal of God’s saving action.
Root and etymology
consonantsYod–Resh–Shin
“to possess, dispossess”
In context — 2 Kings 17:8
And they walked in the statutes of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel, and in those of the kings of Israel that they had done.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 17:8:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 2 Kings 17:8, so the Hebrew word הוֹרִ֣ישׁ (horish) 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.17.8.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.8.W5.S1) and character.