Deuteronomy 28:37:2Deut.28.37.W2PAT

לִשְׁמָה

lishmah

for a horror

Transliteration
lish-MAH
Extended
leesh-MAAH
IPA
/liʃˈmaː/

Meaning by language

English
for a horror
French
pour une horreur
Spanish
para un horror
Portuguese
para um horror
German
zu einem Schrecken
Russian
для ужаса
Arabic-Simplified
لِلرُّعْب
Hindi
आतंक के लिए
Chinese-Simplified
为恐怖
Korean
공포로
Indonesian
untuk horor
Bengali
ভয়ের জন্য
Tagalog
para sa sindak
Swahili
kwa hofu
Amharic
ለድንጋጤ
Yoruba
fun ẹ̀rù
Igbo
maka egwu
Twi
ahunahuna
Ewe
na vɔvɔ

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Result
לִשְׁ + מָה
lish + mah
lishmah

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Memm as in mother
Qametslong 'ah'
Heh as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    lish-MAH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    veh-ha-yee-TAH lish-MAH li-ma-SHAL oo-le-shi-ni-NAH be-KHOL ha-a-MIM

  3. sentence

    veh-ha-yee-TAH lish-MAH li-ma-SHAL oo-le-shi-ni-NAH be-KHOL ha-a-MIM a-SHER-ye-na-ha-GEKHA Ye-ho-VAH sha-MAH

In contextDeuteronomy 28:37

become for a horror for a proverb and for a byword among all the peoples where lead you LORD there

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 28:37:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Deuteronomy 28:37, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁמָה (lishmah) 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.28.37.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.28.37.W2.S1) and character.