2 Samuel 19:6:12 Sam.19.6.W1TABWLC 2 Samuel 19:7
לְאַהֲבָ֙ה
leahava
“to love”
- Transliteration
- le-a-ha-VA
- Extended
- leh-ah-hah-VAA
- IPA
- /ləʔahăˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to love
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
le-a-ha-VA
- clause
le-a-ha-VA et-so-ne-E-kha u-le-sin-O et-o-ha-VE-kha
- sentence
le-a-ha-VA et-so-ne-E-kha u-le-sin-O et-o-ha-VE-kha KI hig-GAD-ta ha-YOM KI EN le-KHA sa-RIM va-a-va-DIM KI ya-da-TI ha-YOM KI LU av-sha-LOM KHAI ve-kul-LA-nu ha-YOM me-TIM KI-AZ ya-SHAR be-e-NE-kha
Exegesis
The verse opens with the infinitive constructs le’ahavah {לְאַהֲבָה֙ | lə-ʾa-hă-vāh} ‘to love’ and u-le-sano {וּלְשׂנֹ֔א | ū-lə-sə-nôʾ} ‘and to hate,’ forming an antonymic parallelism that frames the rebuke.
Root and etymology
ʼ-h-baleph–he–bet
“to love”
In context — 2 Samuel 19:6
To love those who hate you and to hate those who love you, for you have declared today that neither princes nor servants matter to you. For I know today that if Avshalom were alive and we were all dead today, it would be right in your eyes.
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 19:6:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 2 Samuel 19:6, so the Hebrew word לְאַהֲבָ֙ה (leahava) 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.19.6.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.19.6.W1.S1) and character.