Genesis 22:20:7Gen.22.20.W7TAB
לֵאמֹ֑ר
lemor
“saying”
- Transliteration
- le-MOR
- Extended
- leh-MOHR
- IPA
- /leː.ˈmoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- saying
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-MOR
- clause
va-ye-HI a-kha-REI had-de-va-RIM ha-EL-leh va-yug-GAD le-av-ra-HAM le-MOR
- sentence
va-ye-HI a-kha-REI had-de-va-RIM ha-EL-leh va-yug-GAD le-av-ra-HAM le-MOR hin-NEH ya-le-DA mil-KA gam-HI ba-NIM le-na-KHOR a-KHI-kha
Exegesis
The indirect-object prepositional phrase le-avraham {לְאַבְרָהָ֖ם | lə·ʾaḇ·rā·hām} precedes le-mor {לֵאמֹ֑ר | lē·mōr} ‘saying’, which introduces the reported speech.
Root and etymology
ʾ-m-raleph–mem–resh
“to say”
In context — Genesis 22:20
And it happened after these things that word was brought to Abraham , saying, “Behold, Milcah also has borne sons to Nahor your brother.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 22:20:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Genesis 22:20, so the Hebrew word לֵאמֹ֑ר (lemor) 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 Gen.22.20.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.22.20.W7.S1) and character.