Deuteronomy 4:1:3Deut.4.1.W3PAT
שְׁמַ֤ע
shema
“listen”
- Transliteration
- she-MA
- Extended
- sheh-MAH
- IPA
- /ʃə.ˈmaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- listen
- French
- écoute
- Spanish
- escucha
- Portuguese
- ouve
- German
- höre
- Russian
- слушай
- Arabic-Simplified
- اسمع
- Hindi
- सुनो
- Chinese-Simplified
- 听
- Korean
- 들어라
- Indonesian
- dengar
- Bengali
- শোনো
- Tagalog
- makinig
- Swahili
- sikia
- Amharic
- ስማ
- Yoruba
- gbọ́
- Igbo
- gee ntị
- Twi
- tie
- Ewe
- ɖo
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
she-MA
- phraseyour reading level
she-MA el-ha-khu-KIM
- clause
veh-ah-TAA yis-ra-EL she-MA el-ha-khu-KIM veh-el-ha-mish-pa-TIM a-SHER a-no-KHI me-la-MED et-KHEM la-a-SOT
- sentence
veh-ah-TAA yis-ra-EL she-MA el-ha-khu-KIM veh-el-ha-mish-pa-TIM a-SHER a-no-KHI me-la-MED et-KHEM la-a-SOT le-MA-an tikh-YU u-va-TEM vi-rish-TEM et-ha-A-retz a-SHER Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEE a-vo-TEI-khem no-TEN la-KHEM
In context — Deuteronomy 4:1
and now listen Israel to the statutes and to the judgments that I teaching you to do so that live and enter and inherit the land that LORD the God of your fathers giving to you
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 4:1:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Deuteronomy 4:1, so the Hebrew word שְׁמַ֤ע (shema) 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.4.1.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.4.1.W3.S1) and character.