Genesis 1:20:12Gen.1.20.W12PAT
רְקִ֥יעַ
rekeea
“the expanse of”
- Transliteration
- re-KEE-a
- Extended
- reh-KEE-ah
- IPA
- /rə.ˈqiː.aʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- the expanse of
- French
- l'étendue de
- Spanish
- la extensión de
- Portuguese
- a extensão de
- German
- Ausdehnung der
- Russian
- свод
- Arabic-Simplified
- فَضَاءِ
- Hindi
- विस्तार
- Chinese-Simplified
- 穹苍
- Korean
- 궁창
- Indonesian
- hamparan
- Bengali
- বিস্তৃতি
- Tagalog
- kalawakan ng
- Swahili
- anga ya
- Amharic
- ስፋት
- Yoruba
- ààyè gbooro ti
- Igbo
- mbara nke
- Twi
- trɛwmu
- Ewe
- tsɔtsɔ̃
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
re-KEE-a
- phraseyour reading level
re-KEE-a hash-sha-MA-yim
- clause
ve-OF ye-o-FEF al-ha-A-rets al-pe-NE re-KEE-a hash-sha-MA-yim
- sentence
va-YO-mer e-lo-HIM yish-re-TSU ham-MA-yim SHE-rets NE-fesh kha-YA ve-OF ye-o-FEF al-ha-A-rets al-pe-NE re-KEE-a hash-sha-MA-yim
In context — Genesis 1:20
God {And He} said the waters swarm with swarms of creatures living {And} birds fly over the earth across the surface of the expanse of the heavens
About this coordinate
Genesis 1:20:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Genesis 1:20, so the Hebrew word רְקִ֥יעַ (rekeea) 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.1.20.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.1.20.W12.S1) and character.