2 Kings 18:34:112 Kgs.18.34.W11TAB
אֶת־שֹׁמְר֖וֹן
etshomeron
“Samaria”
- Transliteration
- et-sho-me-RON
- Extended
- eht-shoh-meh-ROHN
- IPA
- /ʔɛt.ʃoːməˈroːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- Samaria
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| 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 | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
et-sho-me-RON
- phraseyour reading level
ki-hits-TI-lu et-sho-me-RON
- clause
ki-hits-TI-lu et-sho-me-RON mi-ya-DI
- sentence
a-YE e-lo-HE kha-MAT ve-ar-PAD a-YE e-lo-HE se-far-va-YIM he-NA ve-i-VA ki-hits-TI-lu et-sho-me-RON mi-ya-DI
Exegesis
The direct object marker ʾet {אֶת־ | ʾet} explicitly marks šōmrōn {שֹׁמְר֖וֹן | šōmrōn} ‘Samaria’ as the object, and the idiom miyyāḏî {מִיָּדִֽי | miyyāḏî} ‘from my hand’ expresses possession or power. Overall, the rhetorical structure uses repeated questions and construct parallelism to mock the effectiveness of foreign deities.
Root and etymology
sh-m-r
“to keep, guard”
In context — 2 Kings 18:34
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Did they deliver Samaria from my hand?
About this coordinate
2 Kings 18:34:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 2 Kings 18:34, so the Hebrew word אֶת־שֹׁמְר֖וֹן (etshomeron) 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.18.34.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.34.W11.S1) and character.