Proverbs 19:27:2Prov.19.27.W2TAB
לִשְׁמֹ֣עַ
lishmoa
“to hear”
- Transliteration
- lish-mo-A
- Extended
- lihs-moh-AH
- IPA
- /liʃ.moˈaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- to hear
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lish-mo-A
- clause
kha-DAL-be-NI lish-mo-A mu-SAR
- sentence
kha-DAL-be-NI lish-mo-A mu-SAR lish-GOT me-im-REI-da-AT
Exegesis
The verse begins with the imperative hadal-beni {חַֽדַל־בְּ֭נִי | ḥaḏal-bəni} introducing a warning command, followed by two Qal infinitives, lishmoa {לִשְׁמֹעַ | liš·mō·aʿ} with its object musar {מוּסָ֑ר | mû·sār} and lishgot {לִ֝שְׁג֗וֹת | liš·gō·ṯ} with the prepositional phrase meimrei-daʿat {מֵֽאִמְרֵי־דָֽעַת | mēʾ·im·rê·ḏāʿaṯ}. The serial infinitives form a protasis–apodosis relationship implicit in Hebrew, rendered as a conditional (“If you cease … you will stray”) in English. The contrast between “cease” and “stray” emphasizes reversal from obedience to deviation, and the placement of meimrei-daʿat highlights the source of the moral departure.
Root and etymology
ש־מ־ע
“to hear, listen”
In context — Proverbs 19:27
If you cease, my son, to listen to instruction , you will stray from the words of knowledge .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 19:27:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Proverbs 19:27, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁמֹ֣עַ (lishmoa) 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 Prov.19.27.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.19.27.W2.S1) and character.