2 Samuel 18:27:142 Sam.18.27.W14TAB
וְאֶל־בְּשׂוֹרָ֥ה
veelbesora
“and to news”
- Transliteration
- ve-el-be-so-RA
- Extended
- veh-ehl-beh-soh-RAA
- IPA
- /wəʔɛl.bəsoːˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and to news
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 | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-el-be-so-RA
- phraseyour reading level
ve-el-be-so-RA to-VA
- 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
ב־שׂ־ר
“news, proclamation”
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 18:27:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of 2 Samuel 18:27, so the Hebrew word וְאֶל־בְּשׂוֹרָ֥ה (veelbesora) 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.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.18.27.W14.S1) and character.