Judges 16:27:2Judg.16.27.W2TAB
מָלֵ֤א
male
“was full”
- Transliteration
- ma-LE
- Extended
- maa-LEE
- IPA
- /maːˈleː/
Meaning by language
- English
- was full
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ma-LE
- phraseyour reading level
ma-LE ha-a-na-SHIM
- clause
ve-ha-BA-yit ma-LE ha-a-na-SHIM ve-ha-na-SHIM ve-SHA-ma KOL sar-NE pe-lish-TIM
- sentence
ve-ha-BA-yit ma-LE ha-a-na-SHIM ve-ha-na-SHIM ve-SHA-ma KOL sar-NE pe-lish-TIM ve-al-ha-GAG kish-lo-SHET a-la-FIM ISH ve-i-SHA ha-ro-IM bis-KHOK shim-SHON
Exegesis
The verb male {מָלֵ֤א | mā-lêʾ} ‘was filled’ (Qal perfect) takes ha-anashim {הָֽאֲנָשִׁים֙ | hā-ʾă-nā-šîm} ‘the men’ and veha-nashim {וְהַנָּשִׁ֔ים | wə-hǎ-nā-šīm} ‘and the women’ as direct objects, depicting a completed action.
Root and etymology
m-l-ʾmem–lamed–aleph
“to fill”
In context — Judges 16:27
And the house was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were present, and on the roof there were about three thousand men and women watching Samson in amusement.
About this coordinate
Judges 16:27:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Judges 16:27, so the Hebrew word מָלֵ֤א (male) 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 Judg.16.27.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.16.27.W2.S1) and character.