2 Samuel 18:20:102 Sam.18.20.W10TAB
וּבִשַּׂרְתָּ֖
uvisarta
“and you shall report news”
- Transliteration
- u-vi-sar-TA
- Extended
- oo-vih-sar-TAA
- IPA
- /u.viʃ.ʃarˈtaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and you shall report news
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-vi-sar-TA
- clause
va-yo-MER LO yo-AV LO ISH be-so-RA a-TA ha-YOM ha-ZE u-vi-sar-TA be-YOM a-KHER
- sentence
va-yo-MER LO yo-AV LO ISH be-so-RA a-TA ha-YOM ha-ZE u-vi-sar-TA be-YOM a-KHER ve-ha-YOM ha-ZE LO te-va-SER KI-al KEN ben-ha-ME-lekh MET
Exegesis
The Piel forms u·bissartā {וּבִשַּׂרְתָּ | u·bissartā} and tä·bassēr {תְּבַשֵּׂר | tä·bassēr} ‘you will bring news’ first permit a different occasion and then forbid the present one. The asyndetic coordination and repetition mirror Hebrew’s emphatic sequence.
Root and etymology
s-rshin, resh
“prince, leader”
In context — 2 Samuel 18:20
And Joab said, “You are not a bearer of news this day, and you shall bring news on another day; but today you shall not bring news because the king’s son is dead.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 18:20:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of 2 Samuel 18:20, so the Hebrew word וּבִשַּׂרְתָּ֖ (uvisarta) 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.18.20.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.18.20.W10.S1) and character.