Deuteronomy 26:5:8Deut.26.5.W8PAT

אָבִ֔י

avi

was my father

Transliteration
a-VI
Extended
aa-VEE
IPA
/ʔaː.ˈviː/

Meaning by language

English
was my father
French
était mon père
Spanish
era mi padre
Portuguese
era meu pai
German
war mein Vater
Russian
был моим отцом
Arabic-Simplified
كان أبي
Hindi
मेरा पिता था
Chinese-Simplified
是我的父亲
Korean
내 아버지였다
Indonesian
adalah ayahku
Bengali
আমার পিতা ছিল
Tagalog
ay aking ama
Swahili
alikuwa baba yangu
Amharic
አባቴ ነበር
Yoruba
ni baba mi
Igbo
bụ nna m
Twi
na me papa
Ewe
nye fofo nye

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Result
אָ + בִ֔י
a + vi
avi

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Qametslong 'ah'
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-VI

  2. phraseyour reading level

    o-VED a-VI

  3. 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

  4. 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 contextDeuteronomy 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 26:5:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Deuteronomy 26:5, so the Hebrew word אָבִ֔י (avi) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.26.5.W8.S1) and character.