2 Kings 19:10:122 Kgs.19.10.W12TAB
לֵאמֹ֑ר
lemor
“saying”
- Transliteration
- le-MOR
- Extended
- leh-MOHR
- IPA
- /leːˈʔmoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- saying
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-MOR
- clause
KO to-me-RUN el-khiz-ki-YA-hu ME-lekh-ye-hu-DA le-MOR al-yash-shi-a-KHA e-lo-HE-kha a-SHER a-TA bo-TE-akh BO le-MOR
- sentence
KO to-me-RUN el-khiz-ki-YA-hu ME-lekh-ye-hu-DA le-MOR al-yash-shi-a-KHA e-lo-HE-kha a-SHER a-TA bo-TE-akh BO le-MOR LO ti-na-TEN ye-ru-sha-LA-yim be-YAD ME-lekh a-SHUR
Exegesis
The infinitive leʾemor {לֵאמֹר | lēʾemor} introduces the reported speech.
A second leʾemor {לֵאמֹר | lēʾemor} introduces the deceptive assurance lo tinaten {לֹא תִנָּתֵן | lōʾ tinnātēn} ‘will not be given’ Yerushalayim {יְרוּשָׁלִַם | yərūšālayim} be-yad melek Ashur {בְּיַד מֶלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר | bə-yad mēleḵ ʾāšûr}. The nifal imperfect tinaten frames Jerusalem as the passive recipient of the king of Assyria’s grant, preserving the warning structure and the hierarchy of speaker, agent, and cited assertion.
Root and etymology
’-m-r
“to say, speak”
In context — 2 Kings 19:10
Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, “Do not let your God whom you are trusting deceive you by saying, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’”
About this coordinate
2 Kings 19:10:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of 2 Kings 19:10, so the Hebrew word לֵאמֹ֑ר (lemor) 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.19.10.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.10.W12.S1) and character.