2 Samuel 17:13:142 Sam.17.13.W14TAB
גַּם־צְרֽוֹר׃
gamtseror
“even a pebble or a small stone”
- Transliteration
- gam-tse-ROR
- Extended
- gahm-tseh-ROHR
- IPA
- /ɡam.tsəˈroːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- even a pebble or a small stone
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
gam-tse-ROR
- clause
ve-sa-KHAV-nu o-TO ad-ha-NA-khal AD a-she-re-lo-nim-TSA SHAM gam-tse-ROR
- sentence
ve-im-e-el-IR ye-a-SEF ve-his-SI-u khol-yis-ra-EL el-ha-IR ha-HI kha-va-LIM ve-sa-KHAV-nu o-TO ad-ha-NA-khal AD a-she-re-lo-nim-TSA SHAM gam-tse-ROR
Exegesis
The two successive prepositional clauses—ʿad hā-náḥal {עַד הַנַּחַל | ʿad hā-náḥal} ‘up to the valley’ and ʿad ăšer lōʾ nimṣāʾ šām {עַד אֲשֶׁר לֹא נִמְצָא שָׁם | ʿad ăšer lōʾ nimṣāʾ šām} ‘until there is not found there’—define both the extent and the absolute result of the action, with gam {גַּם | gam} ‘even/also’ intensifying the final tseʾôr {צְרוֹר | tseʾôr} ‘pebble’. The discourse moves from a conditional statement to collective execution and climaxes in a statement of total devastation, which English renders as a clear cause-and-effect progression.
Root and etymology
Roottsade–resh–resh
“bundle, small stone”
In context — 2 Samuel 17:13
And if he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the stream until not even a pebble is found there.
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 17:13:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of 2 Samuel 17:13, so the Hebrew word גַּם־צְרֽוֹר׃ (gamtseror) 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.17.13.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.17.13.W14.S1) and character.