2 Kings 18:26:72 Kgs.18.26.W7TAB
דַּבֶּר־נָ֤א
daberna
“please speak”
- Transliteration
- da-BER-na
- Extended
- dah-BEHR-naa
- IPA
- /dabˈbɛr.naː/
Meaning by language
- English
- please speak
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
da-BER-na
- phraseyour reading level
da-BER-na el-a-va-DE-kha
- 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 Piel imperative dabber-na {דַּבֶּר־נָא | dab-bēr-nāʾ} plus the entreaty particle na conveys polite urgency.
Root and etymology
d-b-rd-b-r
“word, speak”
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 18:26:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Kings 18:26, so the Hebrew word דַּבֶּר־נָ֤א (daberna) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.26.W7.S1) and character.