Jeremiah 24:1:8Jer.24.1.W8TAB
לִפְנֵ֖י
lifnei
“before”
- Transliteration
- lif-NEI
- Extended
- lihf-NEE
- IPA
- /lifˈneː/
Meaning by language
- English
- before
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
lif-NEI
- clause
hir-A-ni ye-ho-VAH ve-hin-NE she-NEI du-da-EI te-e-NIM mu-a-DIM lif-NEI he-KHAL ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
hir-A-ni ye-ho-VAH ve-hin-NE she-NEI du-da-EI te-e-NIM mu-a-DIM lif-NEI he-KHAL ye-ho-VAH a-kha-REI hag-le-VOT ne-vu-khad-re-TSAR ME-lekh-ba-VEL et-ye-khan-YA-hu ven-ye-ho-ya-KIM ME-lekh-ye-hu-DA ve-et-sa-REI ye-hu-DA ve-et-he-kha-RASH ve-et-ham-mas-GER mi-ru-sha-LA-im va-ye-vi-EM ba-VEL
Exegesis
The participle mu’adim {מוּעָדִים | mû‘ādîm} “set” describes their placement lifnei heikhal YHWH {לִפְנֵי הֵיכַל יְהוָה | lip̄nê hēkhāl Yə-hō-wāh} “before the temple of the LORD.”
In context — Jeremiah 24:1
The LORD let me see, and look—two baskets of figs stood before the LORD’s temple after Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had taken Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, into exile from Jerusalem, along with the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and the smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 24:1:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Jeremiah 24:1, so the Hebrew word לִפְנֵ֖י (lifnei) 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 Jer.24.1.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.24.1.W8.S1) and character.