2 Samuel 16:1:32 Sam.16.1.W3TAB
מְעַט֙
meat
“a little”
- Transliteration
- me-AT
- Extended
- meh-AT
- IPA
- /məˈʕat/
Meaning by language
- English
- a little
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tet | t — emphatic |
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Word in context
- word
me-AT
- phraseyour reading level
a-VAR me-AT
- clause
ve-da-VID a-VAR me-AT me-ha-ROSH ve-hin-NE tsi-VA NA-ar me-fi-VO-shet lik-ra-TO
- sentence
ve-da-VID a-VAR me-AT me-ha-ROSH ve-hin-NE tsi-VA NA-ar me-fi-VO-shet lik-ra-TO ve-TSE-med kha-mo-RIM kha-vu-SHIM va-a-le-HEM ma-a-TA-yim LE-khem u-me-A tsi-mu-KIM u-me-A ka-YITS ve-NE-vel YA-yin
Exegesis
The phrase meʿat mê-ha-rōš {מְעַט מֵהָרֹאשׁ | mə-ʿaṭ mē-hā-rōš} forms a spatial idiom “a little beyond the summit.”
In context — 2 Samuel 16:1
And David passed a little beyond the summit , and behold Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, carrying a pair of saddled donkeys and on them two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred portions of summer fruit, and a skin of wine.
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 16:1:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Samuel 16:1, so the Hebrew word מְעַט֙ (meat) 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.16.1.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.16.1.W3.S1) and character.