2 Kings 18:13:92 Kgs.18.13.W9TAB
עַ֣ל
al
“against or upon”
- Transliteration
- AL
- Extended
- AHL
- IPA
- /ʕal/
Meaning by language
- English
- against or upon
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
AL
- phraseyour reading level
AL KAL-a-RE ye-hu-DA
- 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.
The prepositional accusative al-kol-arei yehudah ha-betzurot {עַל־כָּל־עָרֵי יְהוּדָה הַבְּצֻרוֹת | ʿal-kol-ā-rē yə-hū-dāh ha-bə-ṣū-rōt} specifies the target as all fortified cities of Judah.
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 18:13:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 2 Kings 18:13, so the Hebrew word עַ֣ל (al) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.13.W9.S1) and character.