2 Kings 19:35:182 Kgs.19.35.W18TAB
פְּגָרִ֥ים
pegarim
“corpses”
- Transliteration
- pe-ga-RIM
- Extended
- peh-gah-REEM
- IPA
- /pəɣaˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- corpses
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
pe-ga-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
pe-ga-RIM me-TIM
- 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.
Root and etymology
RootPe-Gimel-Resh
“corpse”
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 19:35:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of 2 Kings 19:35, so the Hebrew word פְּגָרִ֥ים (pegarim) 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.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.35.W18.S1) and character.