2 Kings 19:35:132 Kgs.19.35.W13TAB
אָ֑לֶף
alef
“thousand”
- Transliteration
- A-lef
- Extended
- AA-lehf
- IPA
- /ˈʔaːlɛf/
Meaning by language
- English
- thousand
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Pe Sofit | final form of Pe — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
A-lef
- clause
va-ye-HI ba-LAI-la ha-HU va-ye-TSE mal-AKH Ye-ho-VAH va-YAKH be-ma-kha-NE a-SHUR me-A she-mo-NIM va-kha-mi-SHA A-lef
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-LAI-la ha-HU va-ye-TSE mal-AKH Ye-ho-VAH va-YAKH be-ma-kha-NE a-SHUR me-A she-mo-NIM va-kha-mi-SHA A-lef va-yash-ki-MU ba-BO-ker ve-hi-NE khu-LAM pe-ga-RIM me-TIM
Exegesis
Hebrew numbers follow the additive-hectomultiplicative pattern meah šemoneem vaḥamishah alef {מֵאָה שְׁמוֹנִים וַחֲמִשָּׁה אָלֶף | mē-ʾāh še-mō-nîm wa-ḥă-mî-šāh ā-lep̄} ‘one hundred eighty-five thousand’, emphasizing scale.
In context — 2 Kings 19:35
And it happened that night, the angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp, and when they arose early in the morning, behold, all of them were corpses .
About this coordinate
2 Kings 19:35:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of 2 Kings 19:35, so the Hebrew word אָ֑לֶף (alef) 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.19.35.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.35.W13.S1) and character.