Deuteronomy 26:5:3Deut.26.5.W3PAT
לִפְנֵ֣י
lifnei
“before”
- Transliteration
- lif-NEI
- Extended
- lihf-NEE
- IPA
- /lif.ˈneː/
Meaning by language
- English
- before
- French
- devant
- Spanish
- ante
- Portuguese
- diante de
- German
- vor
- Russian
- перед
- Arabic-Simplified
- أمام
- Hindi
- के सामने
- Chinese-Simplified
- 在前
- Korean
- 앞에서
- Indonesian
- di hadapan
- Bengali
- সামনে
- Tagalog
- sa harap ng
- Swahili
- mbele ya
- Amharic
- በፊት
- Yoruba
- níwájú
- Igbo
- n'ihu
- Twi
- anim
- Ewe
- ŋgɔ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
lif-NEI
- phraseyour reading level
lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI-kha
- clause
veh-a-nee-TA veh-a-mar-TA lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI-kha a-ra-MI o-VED a-VI va-YE-red mits-rai-MA va-YA-GAR SHAM bim-TEI me-AT
- sentence
veh-a-nee-TA veh-a-mar-TA lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI-kha a-ra-MI o-VED a-VI va-YE-red mits-rai-MA va-YA-GAR SHAM bim-TEI me-AT va-ye-hi-SHAM leh-GOY ga-DOL a-TSUM va-RAV
In context — Deuteronomy 26:5
and you shall answer and you shall say before LORD your God was my father wandering an Aramean and he went down to Egypt and he sojourned there few in number and there he became a nation great mighty and numerous
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 26:5:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Deuteronomy 26:5, so the Hebrew word לִפְנֵ֣י (lifnei) 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.26.5.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.26.5.W3.S1) and character.