Exodus 2:14:4Exod.2.14.W4PAT

לְאִ֨ישׁ

leish

for a man

Transliteration
le-ISH
Extended
leh-EESH
IPA
/ləˈʔiːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
for a man
French
pour un homme
Spanish
por hombre
Portuguese
por homem
German
zu einem Mann
Russian
человеком
Arabic-Simplified
لِرَجُلٍ
Hindi
एक मनुष्य के लिये
Chinese-Simplified
作一个人
Korean
한 사람으로
Indonesian
sebagai seorang pria
Bengali
একজন মানুষরূপে
Tagalog
bilang isang lalaki
Swahili
kuwa mtu
Amharic
ለሰው
Yoruba
gẹgẹ bi ọkunrin
Igbo
dịka mmadụ
Twi
sɛ ɔbarima
Ewe
na ame

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Result
לְ + אִ֨ישׁ
le + ish
leish

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    le-ISH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    le-ISH SAR ve-sho-FET

  3. clause

    va-yo-MER MI sam-KHA le-ISH SAR ve-sho-FET a-LEI-nu hal-ha-re-GE-ni a-TA o-MER ka-a-SHER ha-RAG-ta et-ham-mits-RI

  4. sentence

    va-yo-MER MI sam-KHA le-ISH SAR ve-sho-FET a-LEI-nu hal-ha-re-GE-ni a-TA o-MER ka-a-SHER ha-RAG-ta et-ham-mits-RI va-yi-RA mo-SHE va-yo-MAR a-KHEN no-DA ha-da-VAR

In contextExodus 2:14

and he said who made you for a man a ruler and a judge over us to kill me you saying as you killed the Egyptian and he was afraid Moses and he said surely has become known the matter

About this coordinate

Exodus 2:14:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Exodus 2:14, so the Hebrew word לְאִ֨ישׁ (leish) 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.2.14.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.2.14.W4.S1) and character.