2 Kings 21:8:42 Kgs.21.8.W4TAB
רֶ֣גֶל
regel
“foot”
- Transliteration
- RE-gel
- Extended
- REH-gehl
- IPA
- /ˈrɛ.ɣɛl/
Meaning by language
- English
- foot
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
RE-gel
- phraseyour reading level
RE-gel yis-ra-EL
- clause
ve-LO o-SIF le-ha-NID RE-gel yis-ra-EL min-ha-a-da-MA a-SHER na-TAT-ti la-a-vo-TAM
- sentence
ve-LO o-SIF le-ha-NID RE-gel yis-ra-EL min-ha-a-da-MA a-SHER na-TAT-ti la-a-vo-TAM RAK im-yish-me-RU la-a-SOT ke-KHOL a-SHER tsi-vi-TIM u-le-khol-ha-to-RA a-sher-tsi-VA o-TAM av-DI mo-SHE
Exegesis
The noun phrase regel Yisrael {רֶגֶל יִשְׂרָאֵל | ré-gel yisräʼēl} uses a body-part idiom for national movement.
Root and etymology
r-g-l
“foot”
In context — 2 Kings 21:8
And I will not again cause the foot of Israel to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, only if they keep doing everything that I commanded them and the entire law that my servant Moses commanded them.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 21:8:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Kings 21:8, so the Hebrew word רֶ֣גֶל (regel) 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.21.8.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.21.8.W4.S1) and character.