Genesis 1:20:5Gen.1.20.W5PAT
שֶׁ֖רֶץ
sherets
“swarms of”
- Transliteration
- SHE-rets
- Extended
- SHEH-rets
- IPA
- /ˈʃɛ.rɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- swarms of
- French
- d'essaims de
- Spanish
- de enjambres de
- Portuguese
- de enxames de
- German
- von Schwärmen von
- Russian
- роями
- Arabic-Simplified
- بِأَسْرَابٍ
- Hindi
- झुंडों के
- Chinese-Simplified
- 成群的
- Korean
- 떼의
- Indonesian
- gerombolan
- Bengali
- ঝাঁকে
- Tagalog
- mga pulutong ng
- Swahili
- makundi ya
- Amharic
- በመንጋዎች
- Yoruba
- ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀
- Igbo
- ìgwè nke
- Twi
- mmɔdɔm a
- Ewe
- hatsotso
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
SHE-rets
- clause
va-YO-mer e-lo-HIM yish-re-TSU ham-MA-yim SHE-rets NE-fesh kha-YA
- 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 1:20:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 1:20, so the Hebrew word שֶׁ֖רֶץ (sherets) 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.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.1.20.W5.S1) and character.