2 Samuel 20:3:122 Sam.20.3.W12TAB
לִשְׁמֹ֨ר
lishmor
“to keep or to guard”
- Transliteration
- lish-MOR
- Extended
- lihs-MOHR
- IPA
- /liʃˈmoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- to keep or to guard
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lish-MOR
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER hin-NI-akh lish-MOR ha-BA-yit
- clause
va-ya-BO da-VID el-BE-to ye-ru-sha-LA-yim va-yik-KAKH ha-ME-lekh ET E-ser-na-SHIM pi-lag-SHIM a-SHER hin-NI-akh lish-MOR ha-BA-yit va-yit-ne-EM BET-mish-ME-ret va-ye-khal-ke-LEM va-a-le-HEM LO-VA
- sentence
va-ya-BO da-VID el-BE-to ye-ru-sha-LA-yim va-yik-KAKH ha-ME-lekh ET E-ser-na-SHIM pi-lag-SHIM a-SHER hin-NI-akh lish-MOR ha-BA-yit va-yit-ne-EM BET-mish-ME-ret va-ye-khal-ke-LEM va-a-le-HEM LO-VA va-ti-he-ye-NA tse-ru-ROT ad-YOM mu-TAN al-me-NUT kha-YUT
Exegesis
The relative clause asher hiniach lishmor habayit {אֲשֶׁר הִנִּיחַ לִשְׁמֹר הַבַּיִת | a-sher hi-ni-akh lish-mor ha-ba-yit} clarifies their prior assignment.
Root and etymology
shin–mem–reshshin–mem–resh
“to guard, keep”
In context — 2 Samuel 20:3
And David came to his house in Jerusalem. And the king took the ten women, concubines whom he had left to guard the house, and placed them in a house of custody . He provided for them, but to them he did not come. And they remained confined until the day of their death, living in widowhood .
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 20:3:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of 2 Samuel 20:3, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁמֹ֨ר (lishmor) 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.20.3.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.20.3.W12.S1) and character.