Deuteronomy 21:20:1Deut.21.20.W1PAT
וְאָמְר֞וּ
veamru
“say”
- Transliteration
- ve-am-RU
- Extended
- veh-ahm-ROO
- IPA
- /və.ʔamˈruː/
Meaning by language
- English
- say
- French
- dire
- Spanish
- decir
- Portuguese
- dizer
- German
- sagen
- Russian
- сказать
- Arabic-Simplified
- يقولوا
- Hindi
- कहना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 说
- Korean
- 말하다
- Indonesian
- berkata
- Bengali
- বলা
- Tagalog
- magsabi
- Swahili
- sema
- Amharic
- ማለት
- Yoruba
- sọ
- Igbo
- kwuo
- Twi
- ka
- Ewe
- gblɔ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
ve-am-RU
- clause
ve-am-RU el-zik-NEE eer-O be-NE-nu ZE so-REIR u-mo-RE ee-NE-nu sho-ME-a be-ko-LE-nu
- sentence
ve-am-RU el-zik-NEE eer-O be-NE-nu ZE so-REIR u-mo-RE ee-NE-nu sho-ME-a be-ko-LE-nu zo-LEL ve-so-VE
In context — Deuteronomy 21:20
say to the elders of his city this our son stubborn rebellious is not listening our voice glutton drunkard
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 21:20:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 21:20, so the Hebrew word וְאָמְר֞וּ (veamru) 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.21.20.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.21.20.W1.S1) and character.