2 Samuel 21:9:42 Sam.21.9.W4TAB
וַיֹּקִיעֻ֤ם
vayokiem
“and they impaled them”
- Transliteration
- va-yo-ki-EM
- Extended
- vah-yoh-kih-EHM
- IPA
- /vaj.joː.qiˈʕum/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they impaled them
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qibbuts | short 'oo' as in food | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
va-yo-ki-EM
- phraseyour reading level
va-yo-ki-EM ba-HAR
- clause
va-yit-NEM be-YAD ha-giv-o-NIM va-yo-ki-EM ba-HAR lif-NE ye-ho-VAH va-yip-LU she-va-tim she-vat-TAM YA-khad
- sentence
va-yit-NEM be-YAD ha-giv-o-NIM va-yo-ki-EM ba-HAR lif-NE ye-ho-VAH va-yip-LU she-va-tim she-vat-TAM YA-khad ve-hem ve-HE-ma hum-TE bi-ME ka-TSIR ba-ri-sho-NIM te-khe-let vit-he-khil-LAT ke-TSIR se-o-RIM
Exegesis
The Hifil stem of vayyoqīʿūm {וַיֹּקִיעֻם | va-yo-kī-ʿūm} ‘and they impaled them’ conveys violent causation, located by bahār {בָּהָר | ba-hār} ‘on the hill’.
In context — 2 Samuel 21:9
And he handed them over to the Gibeonites, and they impaled them on the hill before the LORD , and all seven fell together; they were put to death in the days of harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest .
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 21:9:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Samuel 21:9, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּקִיעֻ֤ם (vayokiem) 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.21.9.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.21.9.W4.S1) and character.