2 Kings 17:9:132 Kgs.17.9.W13TAB
נוֹצְרִ֖ים
notserim
“watchers or guards”
- Transliteration
- no-tse-RIM
- Extended
- noh-tseh-REEM
- IPA
- /noːtsəˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- watchers or guards
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
no-tse-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
mim-mig-DAL no-tse-RIM
- clause
va-yiv-NU la-HEM ba-MOT be-khol-a-re-HEM mim-mig-DAL no-tse-RIM ad-IR miv-TSAR
- sentence
va-ye-kha-PE-u ve-NEI-yis-ra-EL de-va-RIM a-SHER lo-KHEN al-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-hem va-yiv-NU la-HEM ba-MOT be-khol-a-re-HEM mim-mig-DAL no-tse-RIM ad-IR miv-TSAR
Exegesis
The spatial series mimigdal notzerim ad-ir mivtzar {מִמִּגְדַּ֥ל נוֹצְרִים עַד־עִ֥יר מִבְצָֽר | mim-mig-ḏal nō-ṣer-îm ’ad ’îr miḇ-ṣār} ‘from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city’ underscores the extent of unauthorized worship sites across the land.
Root and etymology
n-ṣ-rnun–ṣade–resh
“to watch, guard”
In context — 2 Kings 17:9
And the sons of Israel acted in secret and did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchmen’s tower to the fortified city.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 17:9:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of 2 Kings 17:9, so the Hebrew word נוֹצְרִ֖ים (notserim) 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.17.9.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.9.W13.S1) and character.