Deuteronomy 30:20:4Deut.30.20.W4PAT
לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ
lishmoa
“to listen”
- Transliteration
- lish-MO-a
- Extended
- leesh-MOH-ah
- IPA
- /liʃˈmoaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- to listen
- French
- écouter
- Spanish
- escuchar
- Portuguese
- ouvir
- German
- hören
- Russian
- слушать
- Arabic-Simplified
- الاستماع
- Hindi
- सुनना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 听
- Korean
- 듣다
- Indonesian
- mendengar
- Bengali
- শোনা
- Tagalog
- makinig
- Swahili
- kusikiliza
- Amharic
- መስማት
- Yoruba
- gbọ́
- Igbo
- ige nti
- Twi
- tie
- Ewe
- ɖo to
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lish-MO-a
- phraseyour reading level
lish-MO-a be-KO-lo
- 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 30:20:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Deuteronomy 30:20, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ (lishmoa) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.30.20.W4.S1) and character.