2 Samuel 22:43:52 Sam.22.43.W5TAB
אֶרְקָעֵֽם׃
erekaem
“I will stamp them down”
- Transliteration
- e-re-ka-EM
- Extended
- eh-reh-qaa-EEM
- IPA
- /ʔɛrqɑːˈʕeːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- I will stamp them down
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
e-re-ka-EM
- clause
ke-TIT-khu-TSOT a-dik-KEM e-re-ka-EM
- sentence
ve-e-shkha-KEM ka-a-FAR-A-rets ke-TIT-khu-TSOT a-dik-KEM e-re-ka-EM
Exegesis
The subsequent Piel verbs ’adikkem {אֲדִקֵּ֖ם | ’ă-dik-kḗm} ‘I pounded them’ and ’erqā’em {אֶרְקָעֵֽם | ’er-qā-’ḗm} ‘I trampled them’ frame the similes and intensify the depiction of crushing victory, while the addition of “spread them out” conveys the implied scattering of the defeated. The Hebrew sequence of parallelism and chiasm is retained in the English to preserve cumulative force.
Root and etymology
resh-kof-ayinresh–kof–ayin
“to stamp flat”
In context — 2 Samuel 22:43
And I crushed them like the dust of the earth; like the mud of the streets I pounded them, trampled them, and spread them out.
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 22:43:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 2 Samuel 22:43, so the Hebrew word אֶרְקָעֵֽם׃ (erekaem) 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.22.43.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.22.43.W5.S1) and character.