2 Samuel 13:30:72 Sam.13.30.W7TAB
לֵאמֹ֑ר
lemor
“saying”
- Transliteration
- le-MOR
- Extended
- lee-MOHR
- IPA
- /leːˈʔmoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- saying
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-MOR
- clause
va-ye-HI HE-ma ba-DE-rekh ve-hash-she-mu-A ba-A el-da-VID le-MOR
- sentence
va-ye-HI HE-ma ba-DE-rekh ve-hash-she-mu-A ba-A el-da-VID le-MOR hi-KA av-sha-LOM et-kol-be-NE ha-ME-lekh ve-LO-no-TAR me-HEM e-KHAD
Exegesis
The infinitive leemor {לֵאמֹ֑ר | lēʾemor} ‘to say’ introduces direct speech.
Root and etymology
א־מ־רaleph–mem–resh
“to say”
In context — 2 Samuel 13:30
And it happened, as they were on the way, that the report came to David, saying, “Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons, and not one of them remains.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 13:30:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Samuel 13:30, so the Hebrew word לֵאמֹ֑ר (lemor) 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 Sam.13.30.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.13.30.W7.S1) and character.