2 Kings 23:4:262 Kgs.23.4.W26TAB
וְנָשָׂ֥א
venasa
“and he carried”
- Transliteration
- ve-na-SA
- Extended
- veh-nah-SAA
- IPA
- /wənaːˈsɔː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he carried
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
ve-na-SA
- phraseyour reading level
ve-na-SA et-a-fa-RAM
- clause
va-yis-re-FEM mi-KHUTS li-ru-sha-LA-yim be-shad-MOT kid-RON ve-na-SA et-a-fa-RAM bet-EL
- sentence
va-yetsav ha-ME-lekh et-khil-ki-YA-hu ha-ko-HEN ha-ga-DOL ve-et-ko-ha-NE ha-mish-NE ve-et-sho-me-RE ha-SAF le-ho-TSI me-he-KHAL ye-ho-VAH ET kol-ha-ke-LIM ha-a-su-YIM la-BA-al ve-la-a-she-RA u-le-KHOL tse-VA ha-sha-MA-yim va-yis-re-FEM mi-KHUTS li-ru-sha-LA-yim be-shad-MOT kid-RON ve-na-SA et-a-fa-RAM bet-EL
Exegesis
Two sequential verbs, vayisrefem {וַֽיִּשְׂרְפֵם | va-yi-sre-phem} ‘and he burned them’ and venasa {וְנָשָׂא | wə-nā-sāʾ} ‘and he carried’, describe destruction outside Jerusalem (mikhuts lirushalayim) in the fields of Kidron and disposal at Bethel.
In context — 2 Kings 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers to bring out from the temple of the LORD all the vessels that had been made for Baal and for the Asherah and for the host of the heavens. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 23:4:26 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 26 of 2 Kings 23:4, so the Hebrew word וְנָשָׂ֥א (venasa) 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.23.4.W26, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.23.4.W26.S1) and character.