Exodus 6:9:7Exod.6.9.W7PAT
שָֽׁמְעוּ֙
shamu
“listen”
- Transliteration
- sham-U
- Extended
- shahm-OO
- IPA
- /ʃamˈʕuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- listen
- French
- écoutèrent
- Spanish
- escucharon
- Portuguese
- ouviram
- German
- hörten
- Russian
- послушали
- Arabic-Simplified
- يَسْمَعُوا
- Hindi
- सुना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 听
- Korean
- 들었다
- Indonesian
- mendengarkan
- Bengali
- শুনল
- Tagalog
- nakinig
- Swahili
- kusikiliza
- Amharic
- ሰሙ
- Yoruba
- gbọ́
- Igbo
- ege ntị
- Twi
- tiee
- Ewe
- se to
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
sham-U
- phraseyour reading level
ve-LO sham-U
- clause
ve-LO sham-U el-mo-SHEH mik-KO-tser RU-akh u-me-a-vo-DA ka-SHA
- sentence
va-ye-da-BER mo-SHEH KEN el-be-NEI yis-ra-EL ve-LO sham-U el-mo-SHEH mik-KO-tser RU-akh u-me-a-vo-DA ka-SHA
In context — Exodus 6:9
and he spoke Moses thus to the sons of Israel but did not listen to Moses from shortness of spirit and from labor hard
About this coordinate
Exodus 6:9:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Exodus 6:9, so the Hebrew word שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ (shamu) 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.6.9.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.6.9.W7.S1) and character.