2 Samuel 24:21:62 Sam.24.21.W6TAB
אֶל־עַבְדּ֑וֹ
elavdo
“to his servant”
- Transliteration
- el-AV-do
- Extended
- ehl-AHV-doh
- IPA
- /ʔɛl.ʕavˈdoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to his servant
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
Tap any letter to hear its name and sound
Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
el-AV-do
- clause
va-yo-MER a-ra-VE-na mad-DU-a BA a-do-NI-ha-ME-lekh el-AV-do
- sentence
va-yo-MER a-ra-VE-na mad-DU-a BA a-do-NI-ha-ME-lekh el-AV-do va-yo-MER da-VID lik-NOT me-im-me-KHA et-ha-GO-ren liv-NOT miz-BE-akh la-ye-ho-VAH ve-TE-a-tsar ha-mag-GE-fa me-AL ha-AM
Exegesis
The honorific title adoni-hamelekh {אֲדֹנִֽי־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ | a-do-ni-ha-me-lekh} ‘my lord the king’ uses a construct phrase to show respect, and el-avdo {אֶל־עַבְדּ֑וֹ | el-av-do} ‘to his servant’ functions as a humility expression.
Root and etymology
ʿ-b-d
“servant, to serve”
In context — 2 Samuel 24:21
And Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD so that the plague may be stopped from upon the people.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 24:21:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 2 Samuel 24:21, so the Hebrew word אֶל־עַבְדּ֑וֹ (elavdo) 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.24.21.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.24.21.W6.S1) and character.