Deuteronomy 22:15:1Deut.22.15.W1PAT

וְלָקַ֙ח

velakakh

shall take

Transliteration
ve-la-KAKH
Extended
veh-lah-KAHKH
IPA
/vəlaˈkaχ/

Meaning by language

English
shall take
French
prendra
Spanish
tomará
Portuguese
tomará
German
wird nehmen
Russian
возьмёт
Arabic-Simplified
يأخذ
Hindi
लेगा
Chinese-Simplified
将拿
Korean
취할
Indonesian
akan mengambil
Bengali
নেবে
Tagalog
kukunin
Swahili
atachukua
Amharic
ይወስዳል
Yoruba
yóò mú
Igbo
ga-ewe
Twi
bɛfa
Ewe
ɖe

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Result
וְ + לָ + קַ֙ח
ve + la + kakh
velakakh

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Lamedl as in law
Qametslong 'ah'
Qofq — deep k, uvular
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-la-KAKH

  2. clause

    ve-la-KAKH a-VEE ha-na-a-RA ve-im-MAH

  3. sentence

    ve-la-KAKH a-VEE ha-na-a-RA ve-im-MAH ve-ho-tsi-U et-be-tu-LEI ha-na-a-RA el-zik-NEI ha-IR ha-SHA-ar

In contextDeuteronomy 22:15

shall take father of the young woman bring out and her mother virginity of the young woman to elders of the city the gate

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 22:15:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 22:15, so the Hebrew word וְלָקַ֙ח (velakakh) 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.22.15.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.15.W1.S1) and character.