2 Samuel 18:27:122 Sam.18.27.W12TAB
אִֽישׁ־ט֣וֹב
ishtov
“a man of goodness or a good man”
- Transliteration
- ish-TOV
- Extended
- eesh-TOHV
- IPA
- /ʔiːʃˈtˤoːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- a man of goodness or a good man
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ish-TOV
- phraseyour reading level
ish-TOV ZE
- clause
va-YO-mer ha-ME-lekh ish-TOV ZE ve-el-be-so-RA to-VA ya-VO
- sentence
va-YO-mer ha-tso-PE a-NI ro-E et-me-ru-TSAT ha-ri-SHON kim-ru-TSAT a-khi-ma-ATS ben-tsa-DOK va-YO-mer ha-ME-lekh ish-TOV ZE ve-el-be-so-RA to-VA ya-VO
Exegesis
The second wayyiqtol introduces the king’s response, which uses parallelism in tov ish tov hu {טוֹב אִישׁ טוֹב הוּא | ṭōḇ ’îš ṭōḇ hûʼ} ‘good man, good he is’ to affirm character, and the idiom ve’el besorah yavo {וְאֶל־בְּשׂוֹרָה יָבֹא | wə-’el bəśôrā yāḇōʼ} ‘and to a message he will come’ functions as a result clause indicating that his arrival delivers news.
Root and etymology
א־י־ש
“man, individual”
In context — 2 Samuel 18:27
And the watchman said, “I see the first runner is running like Ahimaaz son-of-Zadok.” Then the king said, “He is a good man, and he will come with good news .”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 18:27:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of 2 Samuel 18:27, so the Hebrew word אִֽישׁ־ט֣וֹב (ishtov) 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.18.27.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.18.27.W12.S1) and character.