2 Samuel 19:17:12 Sam.19.17.W1TABWLC 2 Samuel 19:18
וְאֶ֨לֶף
veelef
“and a thousand”
- Transliteration
- ve-E-lef
- Extended
- veh-EH-lehf
- IPA
- /wəˈʔɛ.lɛf/
Meaning by language
- English
- and a thousand
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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 | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Pe Sofit | final form of Pe — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-E-lef
- phraseyour reading level
ve-E-lef ISH im-MO
- clause
ve-E-lef ISH im-MO mi-be-ne-ya-MIN ve-tsi-VA NA-ar BET sha-UL va-kha-ME-shet a-SAR ba-NAV ve-es-re-RIM a-va-DAV it-TO
- sentence
ve-E-lef ISH im-MO mi-be-ne-ya-MIN ve-tsi-VA NA-ar BET sha-UL va-kha-ME-shet a-SAR ba-NAV ve-es-re-RIM a-va-DAV it-TO ve-tsa-le-KHU ha-yar-DEN lif-NE ha-ME-lekh
Exegesis
The verse presents a cumulative list: u'elef {וּאֵלֶף | wə-ʾê-lep} ‘and a thousand’ establishes the main subject, followed by mibēnyāmīn {מִבִּנְיָמִן | mib-bī-nyā-mīn} ‘from Benjamin.’
In context — 2 Samuel 19:17
And a thousand men were with him from Benjamin, and Ziba, servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants were with him, and they crossed the Jordan before the king .
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 19:17:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 2 Samuel 19:17, so the Hebrew word וְאֶ֨לֶף (veelef) 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.19.17.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.19.17.W1.S1) and character.