Deuteronomy 16:8:12Deut.16.8.W12PAT
מְלָאכָֽה׃
mehlakha
“work”
- Transliteration
- meh-la-KHA
- Extended
- meh-lah-KHAA
- IPA
- /məlaˈxaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- work
- French
- travail
- Spanish
- trabajo
- Portuguese
- trabalho
- German
- Arbeit
- Russian
- работа
- Arabic-Simplified
- عمل
- Hindi
- काम
- Chinese-Simplified
- 工作
- Korean
- 일
- Indonesian
- pekerjaan
- Bengali
- কাজ
- Tagalog
- gawa
- Swahili
- kazi
- Amharic
- ሥራ
- Yoruba
- iṣẹ́
- Igbo
- ọrụ
- Twi
- adwuma
- Ewe
- dɔ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
meh-la-KHA
- clause
oo-vah-YOM hash-vi-EE a-TSE-ret la-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha LO ta-a-SE meh-la-KHA
- sentence
SHE-shet ya-MEEM to-a-KHAL mat-TSOT oo-vah-YOM hash-vi-EE a-TSE-ret la-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha LO ta-a-SE meh-la-KHA
In context — Deuteronomy 16:8
six days eat unleavened bread and on the day the seventh solemn assembly to the LORD your God not do work
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 16:8:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Deuteronomy 16:8, so the Hebrew word מְלָאכָֽה׃ (mehlakha) 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.16.8.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.16.8.W12.S1) and character.