2 Samuel 17:9:142 Sam.17.9.W14TAB
הַשֹּׁמֵ֙עַ֙
hashomea
“the one hearing”
- Transliteration
- ha-sho-ME-a
- Extended
- hah-shoh-MEE-ah
- IPA
- /haʃ.ʃoːˈmeː.aʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- the one hearing
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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Word in context
- word
ha-sho-ME-a
- phraseyour reading level
ve-sha-MA ha-sho-ME-a
- clause
ve-ha-YA kin-FOL ba-HEM ba-te-khi-LA ve-sha-MA ha-sho-ME-a ve-a-MAR ha-ye-TA ma-ge-FA ba-AM a-SHER a-kha-RE av-sha-LOM
- sentence
hin-NE a-TA HU-nekh-BA be-a-KHAT ha-pe-kha-TIM O be-a-KHAD ha-me-ko-MOT ve-ha-YA kin-FOL ba-HEM ba-te-khi-LA ve-sha-MA ha-sho-ME-a ve-a-MAR ha-ye-TA ma-ge-FA ba-AM a-SHER a-kha-RE av-sha-LOM
Exegesis
ve-amar) frames a conditional temporal clause: when some of them fall at the beginning, the speaker anticipates that the hearer, ha-shomea {הַשֹּׁמֵעַ | haššōmēa‘} ‘the one who hears’, will proclaim the outcome.
Root and etymology
š-m-ʿshin–mem–ayin
“to hear, listen”
In context — 2 Samuel 17:9
Behold, now he is hiding in one of the pits or in one of the places, and it will be, when some of them fall at the beginning, that whoever hears will say, “A slaughter has occurred among the people who follow Absalom.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 17:9:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of 2 Samuel 17:9, so the Hebrew word הַשֹּׁמֵ֙עַ֙ (hashomea) 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.17.9.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.17.9.W14.S1) and character.