2 Samuel 18:3:232 Sam.18.3.W23TAB
מֵעִ֣יר
meir
“from a city”
- Transliteration
- me-IR
- Extended
- mee-IHR
- IPA
- /meːˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- from a city
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-IR
- phraseyour reading level
me-IR la-ziR
- clause
ve-a-TA TOV KI-ti-he-YE-la-NU me-IR la-ziR la-ZOR
- sentence
va-yo-MER ha-AM LO te-TSE KI IM-NOS na-NUS LO-ya-SI-mu e-LE-nu LEV ve-IM-ya-MU-tu khe-tsye-NU LO-ya-SI-mu e-LE-nu LEV KI-a-TA kha-MO-nu a-sa-RA a-la-FIM ve-a-TA TOV KI-ti-he-YE-la-NU me-IR la-ziR la-ZOR
Exegesis
The clause ki-tihyeh-lanu meir laazir {כִּי־תִהְיֶה־לָּנוּ מֵעִיר לַעְזִיר | kî–tîh·yēh–lā·nû mê·ʾîr la·ʾa·zîr} uses a nominal construction plus Hiphil infinitive to express preference: “it is better that you give help from the city.”
In context — 2 Samuel 18:3
But the people said, “You shall not go out, for if we flee or are made to flee, they will not set their hearts upon us; even if half of us die, they will not set their hearts upon us. For now you are like ten thousand of us, so it is better that you give help to us from the city.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 18:3:23 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 23 of 2 Samuel 18:3, so the Hebrew word מֵעִ֣יר (meir) 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.18.3.W23, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.18.3.W23.S1) and character.