2 Kings 21:17:112 Kgs.21.17.W11TAB
עַל־סֵ֛פֶר
alsefer
“upon the book of”
- Transliteration
- al-SE-fer
- Extended
- ahl-SEH-fehr
- IPA
- /ʕalˈseːfɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon the book of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-SE-fer
- clause
ha-LO-HEM ke-tu-VIM al-SE-fer div-RE ha-ya-MIM le-mal-KHE ye-hu-DA
- sentence
ve-YE-ter div-RE me-na-SHE ve-KHOL-a-SHER a-SA ve-kha-ta-TO a-SHER kha-TA ha-LO-HEM ke-tu-VIM al-SE-fer div-RE ha-ya-MIM le-mal-KHE ye-hu-DA
Exegesis
The passive participle ketuvim {כְּתוּבִים | kə-tú-vim} ‘written’ conveys certainty, followed by the locative phrase al sefer divrei hayamim lemalkei Yehudah {עַל־סֵפֶר דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים לְמַלְכֵי יְהוּדָה | ʿal sé-fer də-vré ha-yá-mim lə-mal-kê yə-hū-ḏāh} ‘in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah’, specifying the source. The VSO order and repetition heighten the authoritative reference, rendered in English SVO for clarity and rhetorical impact.
Root and etymology
s-p-r
“to count, recount, write”
In context — 2 Kings 21:17
And the remainder of the words of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
About this coordinate
2 Kings 21:17:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 2 Kings 21:17, so the Hebrew word עַל־סֵ֛פֶר (alsefer) 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.21.17.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.21.17.W11.S1) and character.