2 Kings 23:15:22 Kgs.23.15.W2TAB
אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֜חַ
ethamizbeakh
“the altar”
- Transliteration
- et-ha-miz-BE-akh
- Extended
- eht-hah-mihz-BEH-akh
- IPA
- /ʔɛt.hammizˈbeːaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- the altar
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
et-ha-miz-BE-akh
- phraseyour reading level
ve-GAM et-ha-miz-BE-akh
- clause
ve-GAM et-ha-miz-BE-akh a-SHER be-VEIT-EL ha-ba-MA a-SHER a-SA ya-rav-AM ben-ne-VAT a-SHER he-khe-TI et-yis-ra-EL GAM et-ha-miz-BE-akh ha-HU ve-et-ha-ba-MA na-TATS
- sentence
ve-GAM et-ha-miz-BE-akh a-SHER be-VEIT-EL ha-ba-MA a-SHER a-SA ya-rav-AM ben-ne-VAT a-SHER he-khe-TI et-yis-ra-EL GAM et-ha-miz-BE-akh ha-HU ve-et-ha-ba-MA na-TATS va-yis-ROF et-ha-ba-MA he-DAK le-a-FAR ve-sa-RAF a-she-RA
Exegesis
The object et-hamizbeach {אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ | ʾeṯ-ham-mizbēaḥ} ‘the altar’ is immediately specified by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾăšer} ‘which/that’ clauses: first location, bbeit-el {בְּבֵית־אֵל | bəvêt-ʾēl} ‘in Bethel’, then an appositional label habamah {הַבָּמָה | hab-bāmâ} ‘the high place’, and then authorship, asah {עָשָׂה | ʿāśâ} ‘he made’ with yaravam {יָרָבְעָם | yārāḇəʿām} ‘Jeroboam’.
Root and etymology
consonantszayin–bet–chet
“to slaughter, sacrifice”
In context — 2 Kings 23:15
And also the altar that was in Bethel , the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, who caused Israel to sin; also that altar and the high place he tore down. Then he burned the high place, crushed it to dust , and burned the Asherah pole.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 23:15:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 2 Kings 23:15, so the Hebrew word אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֜חַ (ethamizbeakh) 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.23.15.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.23.15.W2.S1) and character.