לֹא־הָיָ֥ה

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 לֹא־הָיָ֥ה

   lo-ha-YA

   there was not
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 לֹא־הָיָ֥ה דָבָ֛ר

   lo-ha-YA da-VAR

   there was not a thing
3. clause🔊 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ אֵ֣ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּבֵיתִי֙ רָא֔וּ לֹא־הָיָ֥ה דָבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־הִרְאִיתִ֖ם בְּאֹצְרֹתָֽי׃

   va-YO-mer khiz-ki-YA-hu ET KAL-a-SHER be-VE-ti ra-U lo-ha-YA da-VAR a-SHER lo-hir-E-tiM be-o-tsro-TAI

   and he said Hezekiah all that in my house they saw there was not a thing that I did not show them in my storehouses
4. sentence🔊 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מָ֥ה רָא֖וּ בְּבֵיתֶ֑ךָ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ אֵ֣ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּבֵיתִי֙ רָא֔וּ לֹא־הָיָ֥ה דָבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־הִרְאִיתִ֖ם בְּאֹצְרֹתָֽי׃

   va-YO-mer MA ra-U be-VE-te-KHA va-YO-mer khiz-ki-YA-hu ET KAL-a-SHER be-VE-ti ra-U lo-ha-YA da-VAR a-SHER lo-hir-E-tiM be-o-tsro-TAI

   and he said what they saw in your house and he said Hezekiah all that in my house they saw there was not a thing that I did not show them in my storehouses

Exegesis

The negative particle lo {לֹא | lōʾ} with the perfect hayah {הָיָה | hāyâ} ‘there was not’ asserts absence, leading into the relative clause ’ăšer lo hir’item {אֲשֶׁר לֹא הִרְאִיתֶם | ʾăšer lōʾ hirʾîtem} ‘that you did not show’, with the domain specified by the prepositional phrase be’otzrotay {בְּאֹצְרוֹתָי | bə-’ōṣrō-tāy} ‘in my treasuries.’ The alternation of questioning and emphatic negation underscores both the envoys’ comprehensive inspection and Hezekiah’s claim of full disclosure.