Genesis 1:18:8Gen.1.18.W8PAT
הַחֹ֑שֶׁךְ
hakhoshekh
“the darkness”
- Transliteration
- ha-KHO-shekh
- Extended
- hah-KHOH-shehkh
- IPA
- /ha.ˈħo.ʃɛx/
Meaning by language
- English
- the darkness
- French
- l'obscurité
- Spanish
- la oscuridad
- Portuguese
- a escuridão
- German
- der Finsternis
- Russian
- тьмой
- Arabic-Simplified
- الظُّلْمَةِ
- Hindi
- अंधकार
- Chinese-Simplified
- 黑暗之间
- Korean
- 어둠
- Indonesian
- kegelapan itu
- Bengali
- অন্ধকার
- Tagalog
- ang dilim
- Swahili
- giza
- Amharic
- ጨለማው
- Yoruba
- òkùnkùn
- Igbo
- ọchịchịrị ahụ
- Twi
- esum no
- Ewe
- viviti la
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
ha-KHO-shekh
- phraseyour reading level
u-VEIN ha-KHO-shekh
- clause
ve-lim-SHOL ba-YOM u-va-LAI-la u-la-hav-DIL BEIN ha-OR u-VEIN ha-KHO-shekh
- sentence
ve-lim-SHOL ba-YOM u-va-LAI-la u-la-hav-DIL BEIN ha-OR u-VEIN ha-KHO-shekh va-YAR e-lo-HIM ki-TOV
In context — Genesis 1:18
{And} to rule over the day and over the night and to separate between the light and the darkness God {And He} saw that it was good
About this coordinate
Genesis 1:18:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 1:18, so the Hebrew word הַחֹ֑שֶׁךְ (hakhoshekh) 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.1.18.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.1.18.W8.S1) and character.