Exodus 12:9:6Exod.12.9.W6PAT

בַּמָּ֑יִם

bamayim

in the water

Transliteration
ba-MA-yim
Extended
bah-MAA-yim
IPA
/bam.ˈmaː.jim/

Meaning by language

English
in the water
French
dans l’eau
Spanish
en el agua
Portuguese
na água
German
im Wasser
Russian
в воде
Arabic-Simplified
في الماء
Hindi
पानी में
Chinese-Simplified
在水里
Korean
물에
Indonesian
di dalam air
Bengali
পানিতে
Tagalog
sa tubig
Swahili
katika maji
Amharic
በውኃው
Yoruba
ninu omi náà
Igbo
n'ime mmiri ahụ
Twi
wɔ nsuo no mu
Ewe
le tsi la me

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Result
בַּ + מָּ֑ + יִם
ba + ma + yim
bamayim

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Memm as in mother
Qametslong 'ah'
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ba-MA-yim

  2. clause

    al-to-khe-LU mi-MEN-nu NA u-va-SHEL me-vu-SHAL ba-MA-yim

  3. sentence

    al-to-khe-LU mi-MEN-nu NA u-va-SHEL me-vu-SHAL ba-MA-yim KI im-tse-li-ESH ro-SHO al-ke-ra-AV ve-al-kir-BO

In contextExodus 12:9

do not eat from it raw or cooked boiled in the water but only roasted by fire its head with its legs and with its inner parts

About this coordinate

Exodus 12:9:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Exodus 12:9, so the Hebrew word בַּמָּ֑יִם (bamayim) 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.12.9.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.12.9.W6.S1) and character.