2 Kings 19:37:32 Kgs.19.37.W3TAB
מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֜ה
mishtakhave
“bowing down or worshiping”
- Transliteration
- mish-ta-kha-VE
- Extended
- mihsh-tah-khah-VEH
- IPA
- /miʃ.taħăˈwɛ/
Meaning by language
- English
- bowing down or worshiping
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mish-ta-kha-VE
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-HI HU mish-ta-kha-VE
- 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 Piel participle mishtachaveh {מִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה | mištahăwèh} ‘bowing down’ forms a circumstantial clause of manner.
Root and etymology
sh-t-ḥshin–tav–chet
“to bow down”
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 19:37:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Kings 19:37, so the Hebrew word מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֜ה (mishtakhave) 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.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.37.W3.S1) and character.