2 Samuel 19:9:182 Sam.19.9.W18TABWLC 2 Samuel 19:10
מֵעַ֥ל
meal
“from upon or from before”
- Transliteration
- me-AL
- Extended
- mee-AHL
- IPA
- /meːˈʕal/
Meaning by language
- English
- from upon or from before
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
me-AL
- phraseyour reading level
me-AL av-sha-LOM
- clause
ha-ME-lekh hi-tsi-LA-nu mi-KAF o-ye-VE-nu ve-HO mil-te-NU mi-KAF pe-lish-TIM ve-a-TA ba-RAKH min-ha-A-rets me-AL av-sha-LOM
- sentence
va-ye-HI khol-ha-AM na-DON be-khol-shiv-TE yis-ra-EL le-MOR ha-ME-lekh hi-tsi-LA-nu mi-KAF o-ye-VE-nu ve-HO mil-te-NU mi-KAF pe-lish-TIM ve-a-TA ba-RAKH min-ha-A-rets me-AL av-sha-LOM
Exegesis
The adversative wə-ʿattāh {וְעַתָּ֥ה | wə·ʿatt·āh} ‘and now’ signals contrast, and the clause bāraḥ min-hā-ʾāreṣ mē·ʿal Avshalom {בָּרַ֛ח מִן־הָאָ֥רֶץ מֵעַל־אָבְשָׁלֽוֹם | bā·raḥ min hā·ʾā·reṣ mē·ʿal ʾav·šā·lôm} ‘he has fled from the land because of Absalom’ presents the crisis. The English rendering retains Hebrew thematic repetition and construct order while smoothing idioms.
In context — 2 Samuel 19:9
And it happened that all the people were disputing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and he rescued us from the hand of the Philistines. But now he has fled from the land because of Absalom .”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 19:9:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of 2 Samuel 19:9, so the Hebrew word מֵעַ֥ל (meal) 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.19.9.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.19.9.W18.S1) and character.