Deuteronomy 12:3:12Deut.12.3.W12PAT
אֶת־שְׁמָם
etshmam
“their name”
- Transliteration
- et-shmam
- Extended
- eet-shmahm
- IPA
- /ʔɛt.ʃmaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- their name
- French
- leur nom
- Spanish
- su nombre
- Portuguese
- o nome deles
- German
- ihren Namen
- Russian
- их имя
- Arabic-Simplified
- اسمهم
- Hindi
- उनका नाम
- Chinese-Simplified
- 他们的名
- Korean
- 그들의 이름
- Indonesian
- nama mereka
- Bengali
- তাদের নাম
- Tagalog
- pangalan nila
- Swahili
- jina lao
- Amharic
- ስማቸው
- Yoruba
- orukọ wọn
- Igbo
- aha ha
- Twi
- din wɔn
- Ewe
- ŋkɔ wɔn
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
et-shmam
- sentence
ve-ni-TATSTEM et-miz-be-KHO-tam ve-shib-BAR-TEM et-mat-tse-VO-tam va-a-she-RE-hem tis-re-FUN ba-ESH u-fee-LEE e-lo-HEI-hem te-ga-DE-UN ve-i-bad-TEM et-shmam min-ha-ma-KOM ha-HU
In context — Deuteronomy 12:3
tear down their altars break in pieces their pillars and their Asherim burn in the fire and the carved images of their gods chop down destroy their name from the place that
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 12:3:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Deuteronomy 12:3, so the Hebrew word אֶת־שְׁמָם (etshmam) 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 Deut.12.3.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.12.3.W12.S1) and character.