Exodus 1:5:6Exod.1.5.W6PAT

נָ֑פֶשׁ

nafesh

person

Transliteration
NA-fesh
Extended
NAA-fehsh
IPA
/ˈnaː.fɛʃ/

Meaning by language

English
person
French
personne
Spanish
persona
Portuguese
pessoa
German
Person
Russian
человек
Arabic-Simplified
نفس
Hindi
व्यक्ति
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
사람
Indonesian
orang
Bengali
ব্যক্তি
Tagalog
tao
Swahili
mtu
Amharic
ሰው
Yoruba
ẹni
Igbo
onye
Twi
onipa
Ewe
ame

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Result
נָ֑ + פֶשׁ
na + fesh
nafesh

Alphabet Analysis

Nunn as in new
Qametslong 'ah'
Pep with dagesh; f without
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    NA-fesh

  2. phraseyour reading level

    shiv-IM NA-fesh

  3. clause

    va-ye-HI kol-NE-fesh yots-EI ye-rekh-ya-a-KOV shiv-IM NA-fesh

  4. sentence

    va-ye-HI kol-NE-fesh yots-EI ye-rekh-ya-a-KOV shiv-IM NA-fesh ve-yo-SEF ha-YA ve-mits-RA-yim

In contextExodus 1:5

and there was every person going out of thigh of Jacob seventy person and Joseph was in Egypt

About this coordinate

Exodus 1:5:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Exodus 1:5, so the Hebrew word נָ֑פֶשׁ (nafesh) 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 Exod.1.5.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.1.5.W6.S1) and character.