2 Kings 18:12:62 Kgs.18.12.W6TAB
אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֔ם
elohehem
“their God”
- Transliteration
- e-lo-HE-hem
- Extended
- eh-loh-HEE-hehm
- IPA
- /ʔɛloːheːˈhɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- their God
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
e-lo-HE-hem
- phraseyour reading level
Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-hem
- 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
- 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.
Root and etymology
h-y-hheh–yod–heh
“to be, to exist”
In context — 2 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 18:12:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 2 Kings 18:12, so the Hebrew word אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֔ם (elohehem) 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.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.12.W6.S1) and character.