Deuteronomy 4:20:9Deut.4.20.W9PAT
לִהְי֥וֹת
lihyot
“to be”
- Transliteration
- lih-YOT
- Extended
- lih-YOHT
- IPA
- /lihjˈoːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- to be
- French
- être
- Spanish
- ser
- Portuguese
- ser
- German
- sein
- Russian
- быть
- Arabic-Simplified
- ليكون
- Hindi
- होने के लिए
- Chinese-Simplified
- 成为
- Korean
- 되기 위해
- Indonesian
- menjadi
- Bengali
- হওয়ার জন্য
- Tagalog
- maging
- Swahili
- kuwa
- Amharic
- ለመሆን
- Yoruba
- jé
- Igbo
- ịbụ
- Twi
- yɛ
- Ewe
- be
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
lih-YOT
- phraseyour reading level
lih-YOT LO
- clause
lih-YOT LO le-AM na-ha-LA kah-YOM ha-ZEH
- 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 context — Deuteronomy 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 4:20:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Deuteronomy 4:20, so the Hebrew word לִהְי֥וֹת (lihyot) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.4.20.W9.S1) and character.