2 Kings 18:13:62 Kgs.18.13.W6TAB
עָלָ֞ה
ala
“he went up”
- Transliteration
- a-LA
- Extended
- aa-LAA
- IPA
- /ʕaːˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- he went up
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Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-LA
- sentence
u-ve-AR-ba e-se-RE sha-NA la-ME-lekh khiz-ki-YA a-LA san-khe-RIV ME-lekh-a-shur AL KAL-a-RE ye-hu-DA ha-be-tsu-ROT va-yit-pe-SEM
Exegesis
The verb alah {עָלָה | ʿā-lāh} employs the idiom ‘go up against’ for military advance.
Root and etymology
ע־ל־ה
“to go up, ascend, attack”
In context — 2 Kings 18:13
And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 18:13:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 2 Kings 18:13, so the Hebrew word עָלָ֞ה (ala) 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.18.13.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.13.W6.S1) and character.