2 Samuel 15:34:152 Sam.15.34.W15TAB
עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ
avdekha
“your servant”
- Transliteration
- av-DE-kha
- Extended
- av-DEH-khaa
- IPA
- /ʕavˈdɛχaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- your servant
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Word in context
- word
av-DE-kha
- phraseyour reading level
va-a-NI av-DE-kha
- clause
ve-im-ha-IR ta-SHUV ve-a-MAR-ta le-av-sha-LOM av-DE-kha a-NI ha-ME-lekh e-HE-ye E-ved a-VI-kha va-a-NI me-AZ ve-a-TA va-a-NI av-DE-kha
- sentence
ve-im-ha-IR ta-SHUV ve-a-MAR-ta le-av-sha-LOM av-DE-kha a-NI ha-ME-lekh e-HE-ye E-ved a-VI-kha va-a-NI me-AZ ve-a-TA va-a-NI av-DE-kha ve-he-FAR-ta LI ET a-TSAT a-khi-TO-fel
Exegesis
The direct speech features chiastic parallelism of ’ănî {אֲנִי | ’ă-nî} ‘I’ and ’avdĕkhā {עַבְדְּךָ | ’av-dĕ-khā} ‘your servant’, framed by the temporal pair mê’āz {מֵאָז | mê-’ā-z} ‘from then’ and wə-’attâh {וְעַתָּה | wə-’ä-ṯ-tāh} ‘and now’.
Root and etymology
ע–ב–ד
“to serve”
In context — 2 Samuel 15:34
But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, “I am your servant, O king; I was your father’s servant from then until now, and now I am your servant,” then you will frustrate for me the counsel of Ahithophel .
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 15:34:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of 2 Samuel 15:34, so the Hebrew word עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ (avdekha) 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.15.34.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.15.34.W15.S1) and character.