Ezekiel 16:20:9Ezek.16.20.W9TAB
לֶאֱכ֑וֹל
leekhol
“to eat or to devour”
- Transliteration
- le-e-KHOL
- Extended
- leh-eh-KHOHL
- IPA
- /lɛʔɛˈxoːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- to eat or to devour
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
le-e-KHOL
- clause
va-tik-KHI et-ba-NA-yikh ve-et-be-NO-ta-yikh a-SHER ya-LAD-te LI va-tiz-ba-KHIM la-HEM le-e-KHOL
- sentence
va-tik-KHI et-ba-NA-yikh ve-et-be-NO-ta-yikh a-SHER ya-LAD-te LI va-tiz-ba-KHIM la-HEM le-e-KHOL ha-me-AT me-tse-nat-ekh mit-taz-nu-TA-yikh
In context — Ezekiel 16:20
And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me , and you sacrificed them to be consumed. Is this of your whoredoms not a small matter?
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:20:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Ezekiel 16:20, so the Hebrew word לֶאֱכ֑וֹל (leekhol) 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 Ezek.16.20.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.20.W9.S1) and character.