Exodus 2:16:3Exod.2.16.W3PAT

שֶׁ֣בַע

sheva

seven

Transliteration
SHE-va
Extended
SHEH-vah
IPA
/ˈʃɛ.vaʕ/

Meaning by language

English
seven
French
sept
Spanish
siete
Portuguese
sete
German
sieben
Russian
семь
Arabic-Simplified
سبع
Hindi
सात
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
일곱
Indonesian
tujuh
Bengali
সাত
Tagalog
pito
Swahili
saba
Amharic
ሰባት
Yoruba
meje
Igbo
asaa
Twi
nson
Ewe
adre

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Result
שֶׁ֣ + בַע
she + va
sheva

Alphabet Analysis

Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal

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Vowels (Niqqud)

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Word in context

  1. word

    SHE-va

  2. phraseyour reading level

    SHE-va ba-NOT

  3. clause

    u-le-kho-HEN mid-YAN SHE-va ba-NOT

  4. sentence

    u-le-kho-HEN mid-YAN SHE-va ba-NOT va-ta-VO-na va-tid-LE-na va-te-mal-LE-na et-ha-re-ha-TIM le-hash-KOT TSON a-vi-HEN

In contextExodus 2:16

and to a priest of Midian seven daughters and they came and they drew and they filled the troughs to water the flock of their father

About this coordinate

Exodus 2:16:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Exodus 2:16, so the Hebrew word שֶׁ֣בַע (sheva) 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.2.16.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.2.16.W3.S1) and character.