Nehemiah 13:30:2Neh.13.30.W2TAB
מִכָּל־נֵכָ֑ר
mikalnekhar
“from all foreignness or what is foreign”
- Transliteration
- mi-KAL-ne-KHAR
- Extended
- mih-KAAL-neh-KHAAR
- IPA
- /mikːɔl.neːˈχaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- from all foreignness or what is foreign
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mi-KAL-ne-KHAR
- clause
ve-ti-HAR-tim mi-KAL-ne-KHAR
- sentence
ve-ti-HAR-tim mi-KAL-ne-KHAR va-a-mi-DA mish-ma-ROT la-ko-ha-NIM ve-lal-vi-YIM ISH bim-la-KHET-to
Exegesis
The idiom min-kol nechar {מִכָּל־נֵכָר | min-kol nē-ḵār} ‘from all foreignness’ conveys total removal of what is alien.
Root and etymology
נ־כ־ר
“to be foreign”
In context — Nehemiah 13:30
And I purified them from all foreignness, and I appointed watches for the priests and for the Levites, each man in his task .
About this coordinate
Nehemiah 13:30:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Nehemiah 13:30, so the Hebrew word מִכָּל־נֵכָ֑ר (mikalnekhar) 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 Neh.13.30.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Neh.13.30.W2.S1) and character.