Deuteronomy 26:2:21Deut.26.2.W21PAT
לְשַׁכֵּ֥ן
leshaken
“to make dwell”
- Transliteration
- le-sha-KEN
- Extended
- leh-shah-KEN
- IPA
- /ləʃakˈkeːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- to make dwell
- French
- pour faire habiter
- Spanish
- para hacer habitar
- Portuguese
- para fazer habitar
- German
- wohnen lassen
- Russian
- чтобы поселить
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِيُسْكِنَ
- Hindi
- बसाने के लिए
- Chinese-Simplified
- 使居住
- Korean
- 거하게 하다
- Indonesian
- untuk mendirikan
- Bengali
- বাস করাতে
- Tagalog
- upang patirahin
- Swahili
- ili akae
- Amharic
- ለማኖር
- Yoruba
- láti mú gbé
- Igbo
- ime ka biri
- Twi
- sɛ ɔbɛma atena
- Ewe
- ma nɔ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-sha-KEN
- phraseyour reading level
le-sha-KEN she-MO
- clause
veh-ha-LAKH-ta el-ha-ma-KOM a-SHER yiv-KHAR Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha le-sha-KEN she-MO SHAM
- sentence
veh-la-KAKH-ta meh-reh-SHEET kol-PREE ha-ah-da-MAH a-SHER ta-VEE meh-ar-tse-KHA a-SHER Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha no-TEN lakh ve-SAM-ta va-TE-ne veh-ha-LAKH-ta el-ha-ma-KOM a-SHER yiv-KHAR Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha le-sha-KEN she-MO SHAM
In context — Deuteronomy 26:2
you shall take from the firstfruits all the fruit of the ground which you bring from your land which LORD your God giving to you you shall put in a basket you shall go to the place which will choose LORD your God to make dwell his name there
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 26:2:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of Deuteronomy 26:2, so the Hebrew word לְשַׁכֵּ֥ן (leshaken) 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.26.2.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.26.2.W21.S1) and character.