Genesis 1:14:7Gen.1.14.W7PAT
לְהַבְדִּ֕יל
lehavdil
“to separate”
- Transliteration
- le-hav-DIL
- Extended
- leh-hav-DEEL
- IPA
- /lə.hav.ˈdiːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- to separate
- French
- pour séparer
- Spanish
- para separar
- Portuguese
- para separar
- German
- um zu trennen
- Russian
- чтобы отделять
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِلْفَصْلِ
- Hindi
- अलग करने के लिये
- Chinese-Simplified
- 为分开
- Korean
- 나누기 위하여
- Indonesian
- untuk memisahkan
- Bengali
- পৃথক করার জন্য
- Tagalog
- upang paghiwalayin
- Swahili
- kutenganisha
- Amharic
- ለመለየት
- Yoruba
- láti yà
- Igbo
- ikewapụ
- Twi
- sɛ ɛbɛpa mu
- Ewe
- ɖe ɖa
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-hav-DIL
- clause
va-YO-mer e-lo-HIM ye-HI me-o-ROT bi-re-KI-a ha-sha-MA-yeem le-hav-DIL BEN ha-YOM u-VEN ha-LAI-la
- sentence
va-YO-mer e-lo-HIM ye-HI me-o-ROT bi-re-KI-a ha-sha-MA-yeem le-hav-DIL BEN ha-YOM u-VEN ha-LAI-la ve-ha-YU le-o-TOT u-le-mo-a-DIM u-le-ya-MEEM ve-sha-NEEM
In context — Genesis 1:14
God {And He} said let there be luminaries in the expanse of the skies to separate between the day and the night and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years
About this coordinate
Genesis 1:14:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Genesis 1:14, so the Hebrew word לְהַבְדִּ֕יל (lehavdil) 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 Gen.1.14.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.1.14.W7.S1) and character.