2 Kings 19:37:112 Kgs.19.37.W11TAB
בַחֶ֔רֶב
vakherev
“with the sword”
- Transliteration
- va-KHE-rev
- Extended
- vah-KHEH-rehv
- IPA
- /vaˈħɛrɛv/
Meaning by language
- English
- with the sword
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
va-KHE-rev
- phraseyour reading level
hi-KU-hu va-KHE-rev
- clause
va-ye-HI HU mish-ta-kha-VE BET nis-ROKH e-lo-HA-yv ve-ad-ram-ME-lekh ve-sar-E-tser va-NAV hi-KU-hu va-KHE-rev ve-HE-ma nim-le-TU E-rets a-ra-RAT
- sentence
va-ye-HI HU mish-ta-kha-VE BET nis-ROKH e-lo-HA-yv ve-ad-ram-ME-lekh ve-sar-E-tser va-NAV hi-KU-hu va-KHE-rev ve-HE-ma nim-le-TU E-rets a-ra-RAT va-yim-LOKH E-sar-kha-DON be-NO takh-TAV
Exegesis
The Hiphil perfect hikuhu {הִכֻּ֣הוּ | hikkûhû} ‘they struck him’ conveys a completed, causative action, with means specified by the prepositional phrase baḥerev {בַחֶ֔רֶב | baḥereḇ} ‘with sword.’
Root and etymology
ḥ-r-bchet–resh–bet
“to desolate, destroy”
In context — 2 Kings 19:37
And it happened, as he was bowing down in the house of Nisrokh his god, that Adrammelek and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword , and they escaped to the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 19:37:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 2 Kings 19:37, so the Hebrew word בַחֶ֔רֶב (vakherev) 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.19.37.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.37.W11.S1) and character.