Psalm 18:21:5Ps.18.21.W5TABWLC Psalms 18:22
מֵאֱלֹהָי׃
meelohai
“from my God”
- Transliteration
- me-e-lo-HAI
- Extended
- MEH-eh-loh-HAAI
- IPA
- /meː.ʔɛloˈhaːj/
Meaning by language
- English
- from my God
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-e-lo-HAI
- sentence
KI-sha-MAR-ti DE-rekh ye-ho-VAH ve-LO-RA-sha-ti me-e-lo-HAI
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase meeloha'i {מֵאֱלֹהָי | mēʾĕlōhāy} ‘from my God’ signals separation from divine relationship. Hebrew’s perfect–perfect parallelism underscores moral integrity while English retains SVO order and the causal-contrastive structure.
Root and etymology
א־ל־ה
“to be strong”
In context — Psalm 18:21
For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not acted wickedly away from my God .
About this coordinate
Psalm 18:21:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Psalm 18:21, so the Hebrew word מֵאֱלֹהָי׃ (meelohai) 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 Ps.18.21.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Ps.18.21.W5.S1) and character.