2 Samuel 18:7:42 Sam.18.7.W4TAB
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yisrael
“Israel”
- Transliteration
- yis-ra-EL
- Extended
- yihs-reh-EEL
- IPA
- /jis.raːˈʔeːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- Israel
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
yis-ra-EL
- phraseyour reading level
AM yis-ra-EL
- clause
va-yin-NAG-fu SHAM AM yis-ra-EL lif-ne av-DE da-VID
- sentence
va-yin-NAG-fu SHAM AM yis-ra-EL lif-ne av-DE da-VID vat-te-HI-SHAM ham-mag-ge-FA ge-do-LA bay-YOM ha-HU es-rim A-lef
Exegesis
The nominal clause ʿam yisraʼēl {עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל | ʿam yisraʼēl} ‘people Israel’ functions as subject, with the prepositional phrase liṿnê ʿăḇdē Dāwîḏ {לִפְנֵ֛י עַבְדֵי דָּוִ֖ד | liṿnê ʿăḇdē Dāwîḏ} marking the opposing force.
Root and etymology
s-rshin, resh
“prince, leader”
In context — 2 Samuel 18:7
And there the people of Israel were struck down before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter on that day—twenty thousand men.
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 18:7:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Samuel 18:7, so the Hebrew word יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yisrael) 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.18.7.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.18.7.W4.S1) and character.