Deuteronomy 22:18:1Deut.22.18.W1PAT
וְלָקְח֣וּ
vehlakkhoo
“take”
- Transliteration
- veh-lak-KHOO
- Extended
- veh-lahk-KHOO
- IPA
- /və.laq.ˈxuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- take
- French
- prendre
- Spanish
- tomar
- Portuguese
- tomar
- German
- nehmen
- Russian
- взять
- Arabic-Simplified
- أخذ
- Hindi
- लेना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 拿
- Korean
- 데려가다
- Indonesian
- mengambil
- Bengali
- নেওয়া
- Tagalog
- kumuha
- Swahili
- kuchukua
- Amharic
- መውሰድ
- Yoruba
- gba
- Igbo
- were
- Twi
- fa
- Ewe
- xɔ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
וְ + לָקְ + ח֣וּ
↓
veh + lak + khoo
↓
vehlakkhoo
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-lak-KHOO
- phraseyour reading level
veh-lak-KHOO zik-NEI ha-IR
- clause
veh-lak-KHOO zik-NEI ha-IR ha-HU
- sentence
veh-lak-KHOO zik-NEI ha-IR ha-HU et-ha-ISH ve-yis-ROO o-TO
In context — Deuteronomy 22:18
take elders of city that the man discipline him
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 22:18:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 22:18, so the Hebrew word וְלָקְח֣וּ (vehlakkhoo) 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.22.18.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.18.W1.S1) and character.