Deuteronomy 4:1:3Deut.4.1.W3PAT

שְׁמַ֤ע

shema

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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
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

Result
שְׁ + מַ֤ע
she + ma
shema

Alphabet Analysis

Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Memm as in mother
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal

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Word in context

  1. word

    she-MA

  2. phraseyour reading level

    she-MA el-ha-khu-KIM

  3. 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

  4. 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 contextDeuteronomy 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.