Deuteronomy 4:20:11Deut.4.20.W11PAT

לְעַ֥ם

leam

for a people

Transliteration
le-AM
Extended
leh-AM
IPA
/ləˈʕam/

Meaning by language

English
for a people
French
pour un peuple
Spanish
para un pueblo
Portuguese
para um povo
German
für ein Volk
Russian
для народа
Arabic-Simplified
لشعب
Hindi
एक जाति के लिए
Chinese-Simplified
为一个民族
Korean
한 백성을 위해
Indonesian
untuk suatu umat
Bengali
একটি জাতির জন্য
Tagalog
para sa isang bayan
Swahili
kwa taifa
Amharic
ለሕዝብ
Yoruba
fún àwọn ènìyàn
Igbo
maka otu ndị mmadụ
Twi
ma ɔman
Ewe
na dukɔ ɖeka

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
לְ + עַ֥ם
le + am
leam

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    le-AM

  2. phraseyour reading level

    le-AM na-ha-LA

  3. clause

    lih-YOT LO le-AM na-ha-LA kah-YOM ha-ZEH

  4. sentence

    veh-et-KHEM lah-KAKH Ye-ho-VAH vah-yoh-TSI et-KHEM mi-KUR ha-bar-ZEL mi-mits-RA-yim lih-YOT LO le-AM na-ha-LA kah-YOM ha-ZEH

In contextDeuteronomy 4:20

LORD took and you brought out you from the furnace the iron from Egypt to be to him for a people inheritance this as the day

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 4:20:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Deuteronomy 4:20, so the Hebrew word לְעַ֥ם (leam) 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.4.20.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.4.20.W11.S1) and character.