Deuteronomy 6:21:4Deut.6.21.W4PAT

הָיִ֔ינוּ

hayinu

we were

Transliteration
ha-yi-NU
Extended
hah-yee-NOO
IPA
/haː.jiˈnuː/

Meaning by language

English
we were
French
nous étions
Spanish
éramos
Portuguese
éramos
German
wir waren
Russian
мы были
Arabic-Simplified
كنا
Hindi
हम थे
Chinese-Simplified
我们是
Korean
이었다
Indonesian
kami adalah
Bengali
আমরা ছিলাম
Tagalog
kami ay
Swahili
tulikuwa
Amharic
ነበርን
Yoruba
àwa ni
Igbo
anyị bụ
Twi
Ewe
mí nye

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Result
הָ + יִ֔י + נוּ
ha + yi + nu
hayinu

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Nunn as in new
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-yi-NU

  2. phraseyour reading level

    a-va-DEEM ha-yi-NU

  3. sentence

    ve-a-mar-TA le-vin-KHA a-va-DEEM ha-yi-NU le-far-OH be-mits-RA-yim va-yo-tsi-EI-nu Ye-ho-VAH mi-mits-RA-yim be-YAD kha-za-KAH

In contextDeuteronomy 6:21

you shall say to your son slaves we were to Pharaoh in Egypt brought us out LORD from Egypt with a hand mighty

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 6:21:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Deuteronomy 6:21, so the Hebrew word הָיִ֔ינוּ (hayinu) 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.6.21.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.6.21.W4.S1) and character.