2 Samuel 22:45:42 Sam.22.45.W4TAB
לִשְׁמ֥וֹעַ
lishmoa
“at hearing or to hear”
- Transliteration
- lish-mo-A
- Extended
- lihsh-moh-AH
- IPA
- /liʃ.moːˈʕa/
Meaning by language
- English
- at hearing or to hear
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 | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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Word in context
- word
lish-mo-A
- phraseyour reading level
lish-mo-A O-zen
- clause
lish-mo-A O-zen yish-SHA-me-U LI
- sentence
be-NEI ne-KHAR yit-ke-kha-khu-SHU-LI lish-mo-A O-zen yish-SHA-me-U LI
Exegesis
The idiom lishmoa ozen {לִשְׁמ֥וֹעַ אֹ֖זֶן | liš-mō-ʿaʿ ’ō-zen} ‘at the sound of the ear’ uses an infinitive construct plus noun to signal immediacy of response. The parallel verbs yitkachashu…
In context — 2 Samuel 22:45
Sons of foreigners will feign obedience to me; when they hear of it, they will obey me.
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 22:45:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Samuel 22:45, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁמ֥וֹעַ (lishmoa) 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.22.45.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.22.45.W4.S1) and character.