2 Kings 18:26:112 Kgs.18.26.W11TAB
שֹׁמְעִ֖ים
shomeim
“we are hearing”
- Transliteration
- sho-me-IM
- Extended
- shoh-meh-EEM
- IPA
- /ʃoːm.ʕiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- we are hearing
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
sho-me-IM
- phraseyour reading level
KI sho-me-IM
- clause
va-YO-mer el-ya-KIM ben-khil-ki-YA-hu ve-shev-NA ve-yo-AKH el-rav-sha-KE da-BER-na el-a-va-DE-kha a-ra-MIT KI sho-me-IM a-NA-khnu
- sentence
va-YO-mer el-ya-KIM ben-khil-ki-YA-hu ve-shev-NA ve-yo-AKH el-rav-sha-KE da-BER-na el-a-va-DE-kha a-ra-MIT KI sho-me-IM a-NA-khnu ve-al-te-da-BER im-MA-nu ye-hu-DIT be-oz-NE ha-AM a-SHER al-ha-kho-MA
Exegesis
The adverbial clause ki shomeim anachnu {כִּי שֹׁמְעִים אֲנָחְנוּ | kî šō-mə-ʿîm ʾănāḥnû} (‘for we understand’) provides justification.
Root and etymology
sh-m-‘shin–mem–ayin
“to hear, obey”
In context — 2 Kings 18:26
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh , “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic , for we understand it, and do not speak to us in Judean in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
About this coordinate
2 Kings 18:26:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 2 Kings 18:26, so the Hebrew word שֹׁמְעִ֖ים (shomeim) 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.18.26.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.26.W11.S1) and character.