2 Samuel 17:5:82 Sam.17.5.W8TAB
וְנִשְׁמְעָ֥ה
venishmea
“and let us hear”
- Transliteration
- ve-nish-me-A
- Extended
- veh-nihs-meh-AA
- IPA
- /vəniʃ.məˈʕaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and let us hear
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-nish-me-A
- phraseyour reading level
ve-nish-me-A ma-be-FIV
- clause
ve-nish-me-A ma-be-FIV gam-HU
- sentence
va-YO-mer av-sha-LOM ke-RA NA GAM le-khu-SHAI ha-ar-KI ve-nish-me-A ma-be-FIV gam-HU
Exegesis
The consecutive waw plus Niphal imperfect wə-nīšme·ʿāh {וְנִשְׁמְעָ֥ה | wə-nīšme·ʿāh} expresses a cohortative ‘let us hear.’
Root and etymology
š-m-ʿshin–mem–ayin
“to hear, listen”
In context — 2 Samuel 17:5
And Absalom said, “Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what is in his mouth.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 17:5:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Samuel 17:5, so the Hebrew word וְנִשְׁמְעָ֥ה (venishmea) 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.17.5.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.17.5.W8.S1) and character.