Deuteronomy 4:40:1Deut.4.40.W1PAT

וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֞

vehshamarta

and you shall keep

Transliteration
veh-sha-mar-TA
Extended
veh-sha-mar-TAA
IPA
/vəʃaːmarˈtaː/

Meaning by language

English
and you shall keep
French
et tu garderas
Spanish
y guardarás
Portuguese
e guardarás
German
bewahrst
Russian
соблюдишь
Arabic-Simplified
ستحفظ
Hindi
पालन करोगे
Chinese-Simplified
遵守
Korean
지킬 것이다
Indonesian
menjaga
Bengali
মান্য করবে
Tagalog
ingatan
Swahili
utashika
Amharic
ትጠብቃለህ
Yoruba
pa mọ́
Igbo
chekwaa
Twi
bɛhwɛ so
Ewe
dzra

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וְ + שָׁ + מַרְ + תָּ֞
veh + sha + mar + ta
vehshamarta

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Qametslong 'ah'
Memm as in mother
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Tavt as in top
Qametslong 'ah'

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The word

Word in context

  1. word

    veh-sha-mar-TA

  2. clause

    veh-sha-mar-TA et-khu-KAV veh-et-mits-vo-TAV a-SHER a-no-KHI me-tsav-KHA ha-YOM a-SHER yi-TAV le-KHA u-le-va-NE-kha a-cha-RE-kha

  3. sentence

    veh-sha-mar-TA et-khu-KAV veh-et-mits-vo-TAV a-SHER a-no-KHI me-tsav-KHA ha-YOM a-SHER yi-TAV le-KHA u-le-va-NE-kha a-cha-RE-kha u-le-MA-an ta-a-REEKH ya-MIM al-ha-a-da-MAH a-SHER Yeh-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha no-TEN le-KHA kol-ha-ya-MIM

In contextDeuteronomy 4:40

and you shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today that it may go well for you and your children after you and so that prolong days on the land which LORD your God is giving to you all the days

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 4:40:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 4:40, so the Hebrew word וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֞ (vehshamarta) 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.4.40.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.4.40.W1.S1) and character.