2 Kings 19:35:142 Kgs.19.35.W14TAB
וַיַּשְׁכִּ֣ימוּ
vayashkimu
“and they rose early”
- Transliteration
- va-yash-ki-MU
- Extended
- vah-yahsh-kee-MOO
- IPA
- /vaj.jaʃkiˈmuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they rose early
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yash-ki-MU
- phraseyour reading level
va-yash-ki-MU ba-BO-ker
- clause
va-yash-ki-MU ba-BO-ker ve-hi-NE khu-LAM pe-ga-RIM me-TIM
- 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
The sequence vayashkimu baboker vehineh {וַיַּשְׁכִּימוּ בַּבֹּקֶר וְהִנֵּה | wa-yaš-šĕ-qîmû ba-bō-qer wə-hin-nēh} ‘and they arose early in the morning, and behold’ sets up the climactic revelation kullam pgarim metim {כֻּלָּם פְּגָרִים מֵתִים | kul-lām pe-gā-rîm mē-tîm} ‘all of them corpses, dead’, using parataxis to heighten the impact.
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 19:35:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of 2 Kings 19:35, so the Hebrew word וַיַּשְׁכִּ֣ימוּ (vayashkimu) 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.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.35.W14.S1) and character.