Exodus 6:16:5Exod.6.16.W5PAT

גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן

gershon

Gershon

Transliteration
ger-SHON
Extended
gehr-SHOHN
IPA
/geːr.ˈʃoːn/

Meaning by language

English
Gershon
French
Guershon
Spanish
Gersón
Portuguese
Gerson
German
Gerschon
Russian
Гирсон
Arabic-Simplified
جرشون
Hindi
गेरशोन
Chinese-Simplified
革顺
Korean
게르손
Indonesian
Gershon
Bengali
গের্শোন
Tagalog
Gerson
Swahili
Gershoni
Amharic
ጌርሾን
Yoruba
Gershon
Igbo
Gershon
Twi
Gershon
Ewe
Gershon

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
גֵּרְ + שׁ֕וֹן
ger + shon
gershon

Alphabet Analysis

Gimelg as in good
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Nun Sofitfinal form of Nun — at word end

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Vowels (Niqqud)

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The word

Word in context

  1. word

    ger-SHON

  2. clause

    ve-E-le she-MOT be-nei-le-VI le-tol-do-TAM ger-SHON u-ke-HAT u-me-ra-RI

  3. sentence

    ve-E-le she-MOT be-nei-le-VI le-tol-do-TAM ger-SHON u-ke-HAT u-me-ra-RI u-she-NEI khai-YEI le-VI SHE-va u-she-lo-SHIM u-me-AT sha-NA

In contextExodus 6:16

and these the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations Gershon and Kohath and Merari and the years of the life of Levi seven and thirty and one hundred years

About this coordinate

Exodus 6:16:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Exodus 6:16, so the Hebrew word גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן (gershon) 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.6.16.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.6.16.W5.S1) and character.