2 Samuel 21:5:82 Sam.21.5.W8TAB
נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּ
nishmadenu
“we should be destroyed”
- Transliteration
- nish-ma-DE-nu
- Extended
- nihsh-mah-DEH-noo
- IPA
- /niʃ.maˈðɛnuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- we should be destroyed
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
nish-ma-DE-nu
- clause
nish-ma-DE-nu me-hit-ya-TSEV be-KHOL-ge-VUL yis-ra-EL
- sentence
va-yo-ME-ru el-ha-ME-lekh ha-ISH a-SHER kil-LA-nu va-a-SHER dim-MA-la-NU nish-ma-DE-nu me-hit-ya-TSEV be-KHOL-ge-VUL yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
The main clause uses the Nifal perfect in nishmadnu {נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּ | nišmādnû} ‘we have been destroyed’, expressing the resultant state.
In context — 2 Samuel 21:5
And they said to the king, “The man who destroyed us and who plotted against us—we have been destroyed from standing anywhere within all the territory of Israel.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 21:5:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Samuel 21:5, so the Hebrew word נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּ (nishmadenu) 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.21.5.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.21.5.W8.S1) and character.