2 Samuel 20:16:112 Sam.20.16.W11TAB

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה

vaadabbera

“so that I may speak”

Transliteration: va-a-dab-be-RA
Extended: vah-ah-dahb-beh-RAA
IPA: /va.ʔă.ðab.bəˈraː/

Meaning by language

English: so that I may speak

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result

וַ + אֲ + דַב + בְּ + רָ֖ה

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va + a + dab + be + ra

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vaadabbera

Alphabet Analysis

	Vav	v as in vine; marks long ō / ū
	Patach	short 'ah' as in father
	Aleph	silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
	Hateph Patach	reduced 'ah'
	Dalet	d as in door
	Patach	short 'ah' as in father
	Bet	b with dagesh; v without dagesh
	Sheva	vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
	Resh	r guttural, like the French r
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	He	h as in house; silent at word end

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The word

Word in context

word
va-a-dab-be-RA
clause
shim-E-U shim-E-U im-ru-NA el-yo-AV ke-RAV ad-HE-na va-a-dab-be-RA e-LE-kha
sentence
va-tik-RA i-SHA kha-kha-MA min-ha-Ir shim-E-U shim-E-U im-ru-NA el-yo-AV ke-RAV ad-HE-na va-a-dab-be-RA e-LE-kha

Exegesis

The cohortative va’adabberah {וַאֲדַבְּרָה | wa-ʾaḏ-ba-rāh} ‘and let me speak’ expresses intention, with eilekha {אֵלֶיךָ | ʾê-le-kā} ‘to you’ as final direct address. The sequence of vav-consecutive narrative, imperatives, and cohortative yields a tone of immediacy and negotiation, rendered in English by faithful replication of commands and personal appeal.

Root and etymology

ד־ב־ר

“to speak”

In context — 2 Samuel 20:16

And a wise woman called out from the city, “Hear! Hear! Say to Joab, ‘Come near here, and let me speak to you.’”

About this coordinate

2 Samuel 20:16:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 2 Samuel 20:16, so the Hebrew word וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה (vaadabbera) 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.20.16.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.20.16.W11.S1) and character.

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