Deuteronomy 30:20:1Deut.30.20.W1PAT
לְאַֽהֲבָה֙
leahavah
“to love”
- Transliteration
- le-a-ha-VAH
- Extended
- leh-a-hah-VAAH
- IPA
- /ləʔahaˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to love
- French
- aimer
- Spanish
- amar
- Portuguese
- amar
- German
- lieben
- Russian
- любить
- Arabic-Simplified
- يحب
- Hindi
- प्रेम करना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 爱
- Korean
- 사랑하다
- Indonesian
- mengasihi
- Bengali
- ভালবাসতে
- Tagalog
- mahalin
- Swahili
- kupenda
- Amharic
- መውደድ
- Yoruba
- fẹ́
- Igbo
- ịhụ n'anya
- Twi
- dɔ
- Ewe
- dɔ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-a-ha-VAH
- clause
le-a-ha-VAH et-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha lish-MO-a be-KO-lo u-le-dav-KA-vo
- sentence
le-a-ha-VAH et-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha lish-MO-a be-KO-lo u-le-dav-KA-vo ki HU khai-YE-kha ve-O-rekh ya-ME-kha la-SHE-vet al-ha-a-da-MA a-SHER nish-BA ye-ho-VAH la-a-vo-TE-kha le-av-ra-HAM le-yits-KHAK u-le-ya-a-KOV la-TET la-HEM
In context — Deuteronomy 30:20
to love LORD your God to listen to his voice and to cling to him for he is your life and length of your days to dwell upon the land which swore LORD to your fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give to them
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 30:20:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 30:20, so the Hebrew word לְאַֽהֲבָה֙ (leahavah) 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.30.20.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.30.20.W1.S1) and character.