Exodus 2:3:15Exod.2.3.W15PAT
עַל־שְׂפַ֥ת
alsefat
“by the bank of”
- Transliteration
- al-se-FAT
- Extended
- ahl-seh-FAHT
- IPA
- /ʕal.sə.ˈfat/
Meaning by language
- English
- by the bank of
- French
- au bord de
- Spanish
- a la orilla de
- Portuguese
- à beira de
- German
- am Ufer von
- Russian
- у берега
- Arabic-Simplified
- على شاطئ
- Hindi
- किनारे पर
- Chinese-Simplified
- 在岸边
- Korean
- 강둑 가에
- Indonesian
- di tepi
- Bengali
- তীরের ধারে
- Tagalog
- sa pampang ng
- Swahili
- kando ya ukingo wa
- Amharic
- በዳርቻ ላይ
- Yoruba
- lẹ́bàá etí
- Igbo
- n'akụkụ ọnụ
- Twi
- anoano
- Ewe
- le to
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-se-FAT
- phraseyour reading level
al-se-FAT ha-ye-OR
- clause
va-TA-sem BAH et-ha-YE-led va-TA-sem ba-SOOF al-se-FAT ha-ye-OR
- sentence
ve-lo-yokh-LA OD hats-pi-NO va-tik-kakh-LO TE-vat GO-me va-takh-me-RA ba-khe-MAR u-va-ZA-fet va-TA-sem BAH et-ha-YE-led va-TA-sem ba-SOOF al-se-FAT ha-ye-OR
In context — Exodus 2:3
and she was not able any longer to hide him and she took for him a basket of papyrus and she daubed it with bitumen and with pitch and she put in it the child and she put in the reeds by the bank of the river
About this coordinate
Exodus 2:3:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Exodus 2:3, so the Hebrew word עַל־שְׂפַ֥ת (alsefat) 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.2.3.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.2.3.W15.S1) and character.