2 Samuel 22:2:32 Sam.22.2.W3TAB
סַֽלְעִ֥י
sale
“my rock”
- Transliteration
- sal-E
- Extended
- sahl-EH
- IPA
- /salˈʕiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- my rock
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
sal-E
- phraseyour reading level
sal-E u-me-tsu-da-TI
- clause
ye-ho-VAH sal-E u-me-tsu-da-TI u-me-fal-TI-li
- sentence
va-YO-mar ye-ho-VAH sal-E u-me-tsu-da-TI u-me-fal-TI-li
Exegesis
A triadic parallelism follows: sal'i {סַלְעִי | sa-la-’î} ‘rock’, umetsudati {וּמְצֻדָתִ֖י | u-mə-ṣû-ḏā-tî} ‘fortress’, and umephalti-li {וּמְפַלְטִי־לִֽי | u-mə-p̄al·ṭî-lî} ‘deliverer to me’, each introduced by vav to highlight layered aspects of divine protection. The first-person singular suffixes intensify personal trust. English retains the Hebrew’s repeated “and” conjunctions to preserve the rhythmic and rhetorical effect.
Root and etymology
ס־ל־ע
“rock, crag, cliff”
In context — 2 Samuel 22:2
He said: “The LORD is my rock , my fortress, and my deliverer.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 22:2:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Samuel 22:2, so the Hebrew word סַֽלְעִ֥י (sale) 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.22.2.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.22.2.W3.S1) and character.