2 Kings 18:22:12 Kgs.18.22.W1TAB
וְכִי־תֹאמְר֣וּן
vekhitomerun
“and if you say”
- Transliteration
- ve-khi-to-me-RUN
- Extended
- veh-khee-toh-meh-RUN
- IPA
- /vəkʰiː.toːmˈruːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- and if you say
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-khi-to-me-RUN
- phraseyour reading level
ve-khi-to-me-RUN e-LAI
- clause
ve-khi-to-me-RUN e-LAI el-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-nu ba-TAKH-nu
- sentence
ve-khi-to-me-RUN e-LAI el-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-nu ba-TAKH-nu ha-lo-HU a-SHER he-SIR khiz-ki-YA-hu et-ba-mo-TAV ve-et-miz-be-kho-TAV va-yo-MER li-ye-hu-DA ve-li-ru-sha-LA-yim lif-NE ha-miz-BE-akh ha-ZE tish-ta-kha-VU bi-ru-sha-LA-yim
Exegesis
The verse opens with the conditional conjunction vechi tomrun {וְכִי־תֹאמְר֣וּן | wā-ḵî-tōmərûn} ‘and if you say’, introducing a hypothetical objection.
Root and etymology
ʾ-m-raleph–mem–resh
“to speak”
In context — 2 Kings 18:22
But if you say to me, “In the LORD our God we have trusted”—is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and who said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘Before this altar you shall bow down in Jerusalem’?”
About this coordinate
2 Kings 18:22:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 2 Kings 18:22, so the Hebrew word וְכִי־תֹאמְר֣וּן (vekhitomerun) 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.18.22.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.22.W1.S1) and character.