Deuteronomy 29:26:3Deut.29.26.W3PATWLC Deuteronomy 29:25

אֱלֹהִים

elohim

gods

Transliteration
e-lo-HIM
Extended
eh-loh-HEEM
IPA
/ʔɛloˈhiːm/

Meaning by language

English
gods
French
dieux
Spanish
dioses
Portuguese
deuses
German
Götter
Russian
боги
Arabic-Simplified
آلهة
Hindi
देवता
Chinese-Simplified
众神
Korean
신들
Indonesian
allah-allah
Bengali
দেবতারা
Tagalog
mga diyos
Swahili
miungu
Amharic
አማልክት
Yoruba
òrìṣà
Igbo
chi
Twi
anyame
Ewe
mawui

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Result
אֱ + לֹ + הִים
e + lo + him
elohim

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hateph Segholreduced 'eh'
Lamedl as in law
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    e-lo-HIM

  2. sentence

    va-yel-KHOO va-ya-av-DOO e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM va-yish-ta-kha-VOO la-HEM e-lo-HIM a-SHER LO-ye-da-UM ve-LO-kha-LAK la-HEM

In contextDeuteronomy 29:26

and they went and they served gods other and they bowed down to them gods whom they had not known them and he had not allotted to them

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 29:26:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Deuteronomy 29:26, so the Hebrew word אֱלֹהִים (elohim) 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.29.26.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.29.26.W3.S1) and character.