Deuteronomy 6:1:2Deut.6.1.W2PAT
הַמִּצְוָה
hamitsvah
“the commandment”
- Transliteration
- ha-mits-VAH
- Extended
- hah-mits-VAH
- IPA
- /ham.mitsˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- the commandment
- French
- le commandement
- Spanish
- el mandamiento
- Portuguese
- o mandamento
- German
- Gebot
- Russian
- заповедь
- Arabic-Simplified
- الوصية
- Hindi
- आज्ञा
- Chinese-Simplified
- 诫命
- Korean
- 계명
- Indonesian
- perintah
- Bengali
- আজ্ঞা
- Tagalog
- utos
- Swahili
- amri
- Amharic
- ትእዛዝ
- Yoruba
- àṣẹ
- Igbo
- iwu
- Twi
- ahyɛde
- Ewe
- gbedodo
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ha-mits-VAH
- sentence
ve-ZOT ha-mits-VAH ha-khu-KIM ve-ha-mish-pa-TIM a-SHER tsi-VAH Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEE-khem le-la-MED et-KHEM la-a-SOT ba-A-retz a-SHER a-TEM o-vRIM sha-MAH la-re-she-TAH
In context — Deuteronomy 6:1
And this the commandment the statutes and the rules that LORD your God commanded to teach you to do in the land that you crossing there to possess it
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 6:1:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Deuteronomy 6:1, so the Hebrew word הַמִּצְוָה (hamitsvah) 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.6.1.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.6.1.W2.S1) and character.