2 Kings 18:12:42 Kgs.18.12.W4TAB

בְּקוֹל֙

bekol

to the voice of

Transliteration
be-KOL
Extended
beh-KOHL
IPA
/bəˈqoːl/

Meaning by language

English
to the voice of

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
בְּ + קוֹל֙
be + kol
bekol

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Qofq — deep k, uvular
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Lamedl as in law

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Word in context

  1. word

    be-KOL

  2. clause

    AL a-SHER lo-SHA-me-U be-KOL Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-hem va-ya-av-RE-U et-be-ri-TO ET kal-a-SHER tsi-VA mo-SHE E-ved Ye-ho-VAH

  3. sentence

    AL a-SHER lo-SHA-me-U be-KOL Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-hem va-ya-av-RE-U et-be-ri-TO ET kal-a-SHER tsi-VA mo-SHE E-ved Ye-ho-VAH ve-LO SHA-me-U ve-LO A-SU

Exegesis

The relative pronoun asher lo sham‘ū {אֲשֶׁר לֹא שָׁמְעוּ | ʾă-šer lōʾ šā-me-ʾū} ‘that they did not obey’ with the prepositional phrase be-qōl YHWH elōhêhem {בְּקוֹל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיהֶם | bə-qōl Yəhōwāh ʾĕ-lō-hê-hem} ‘in the voice of the LORD their God’ establishes the grounds for judgment.

In context2 Kings 18:12

They did not heed the voice of the LORD their God , and they violated His covenant—everything that Moses, the LORD’s servant, commanded. They neither listened nor carried it out.

About this coordinate

2 Kings 18:12:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Kings 18:12, so the Hebrew word בְּקוֹל֙ (bekol) 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.18.12.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.12.W4.S1) and character.