2 Samuel 22:5:32 Sam.22.5.W3TAB
מִשְׁבְּרֵי־מָ֑וֶת
mishbereimavet
“breakers of death”
- Transliteration
- mish-be-REI-MA-vet
- Extended
- mihsh-beh-REE-MAA-veht
- IPA
- /miʃ.bəˈreː.maː.vɛt/
Meaning by language
- English
- breakers of death
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mish-be-REI-MA-vet
- clause
KI a-fa-FU-ni mish-be-REI-MA-vet
- sentence
KI a-fa-FU-ni mish-be-REI-MA-vet na-kha-LEI be-li-YA-al ye-va-a-TU-ni
Exegesis
The construct phrase mishberei-mavet {מִשְׁבְּרֵי־מָוֶת | mîšbərê-māweṯ} ‘breakers-of-death’ parallels nachalei beliya'al {נַחֲלֵי בְּלִיַּעַל | naḥălê bəlîyaʻal} ‘torrents-of-destruction’, intensifying the poetic imagery through parallelism.
Root and etymology
shin–bet–reshš-b-r
“to break; shatter”
In context — 2 Samuel 22:5
For the waves of death closed around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me .
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 22:5:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Samuel 22:5, so the Hebrew word מִשְׁבְּרֵי־מָ֑וֶת (mishbereimavet) 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.22.5.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.22.5.W3.S1) and character.