2 Kings 20:8:42 Kgs.20.8.W4TAB
מָ֣ה
ma
“what”
- Transliteration
- MA
- Extended
- MAA
- IPA
- /ˈmaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- what
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
MA
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MA OT
- clause
va-YO-mer khiz-ki-YA-hu el-ye-sha-YA-hu MA OT ki-yir-PA ye-ho-VAH LI
- sentence
va-YO-mer khiz-ki-YA-hu el-ye-sha-YA-hu MA OT ki-yir-PA ye-ho-VAH LI ve-a-LI-ti ba-YOM ha-she-li-SHI BET ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The interrogative clause māh ʾôt kî {מָה אוֹת כִּי | māh ʾôt kî} ‘what sign that’ leads into the subordinate kî-yirpāʾ YHWH lî {כִּי־יִרְפָּא יְהוָה לִי | kî-yirpāʾ Yə-hō-wāh lî} ‘that the LORD will heal me,’ where kî ‘that’ introduces two coordinated result clauses and the suffix lî ‘to me’ marks the beneficiary.
In context — 2 Kings 20:8
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What sign will show that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
About this coordinate
2 Kings 20:8:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Kings 20:8, so the Hebrew word מָ֣ה (ma) 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.20.8.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.20.8.W4.S1) and character.