Genesis 47:9:8Gen.47.9.W8TAB
וּמְאַ֖ת
umeat
“and one hundred”
- Transliteration
- u-me-AT
- Extended
- oo-meh-AT
- IPA
- /u.mə.ˈʔat/
Meaning by language
- English
- and one hundred
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-me-AT
- phraseyour reading level
she-lo-SHIM u-me-AT
- clause
va-YO-mer ya-a-KOV el-par-O ye-MEI she-NEI me-gu-RAI she-lo-SHIM u-me-AT sha-NA
- sentence
va-YO-mer ya-a-KOV el-par-O ye-MEI she-NEI me-gu-RAI she-lo-SHIM u-me-AT sha-NA me-AT ve-ra-IM ha-YU ye-MEI she-NEI khai-YAI ve-LO hi-SI-gu et-ye-MEI she-NEI khai-YEI a-vo-TAI bi-MEI me-gu-REI-hem
Exegesis
The numerical expression šəlōšîm ū-mə-ʾat šānāh {שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמְאַת שָׁנָה | šə-lō-šîm ū-mə-ʾat šā-nāh} ‘thirty and one hundred year’ is rendered as one hundred and thirty years.
In context — Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days comprising the years I have sojourned total one hundred and thirty. My days have been few and distressing , and they have not reached the span of years that my fathers experienced in their days of sojourning.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 47:9:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 47:9, so the Hebrew word וּמְאַ֖ת (umeat) 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 Gen.47.9.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.47.9.W8.S1) and character.