Genesis 1:26:11Gen.1.26.W11PAT

הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם

hashamayim

the skies

Transliteration
ha-sha-MA-yim
Extended
hah-shah-MAH-yihm
IPA
/haʃ.ʃaːˈma.jim/

Meaning by language

English
the skies
French
les cieux
Spanish
cielos
Portuguese
céus
German
Himmels
Russian
небес
Arabic-Simplified
السماوات
Hindi
आकाश के
Chinese-Simplified
天空的
Korean
하늘의
Indonesian
langit
Bengali
আকাশের
Tagalog
langit
Swahili
mbingu
Amharic
ሰማያት
Yoruba
ọrun
Igbo
eluigwe
Twi
ɔsoro no
Ewe
dzifo

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Result
הַ + שָּׁ + מַ֗ + יִם
ha + sha + ma + yim
hashamayim

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Qametslong 'ah'
Memm as in mother
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-sha-MA-yim

  2. phraseyour reading level

    u-ve-OF ha-sha-MA-yim

  3. clause

    ve-yir-DU vid-GAT ha-YAM u-ve-OF ha-sha-MA-yim u-va-be-he-MA u-ve-khol-ha-A-rets u-ve-khol-ha-RE-mes ha-ro-MES al-ha-A-rets

  4. sentence

    va-yo-MER e-lo-HIM na-a-SE a-DAM be-tsal-ME-nu kid-mu-TE-nu ve-yir-DU vid-GAT ha-YAM u-ve-OF ha-sha-MA-yim u-va-be-he-MA u-ve-khol-ha-A-rets u-ve-khol-ha-RE-mes ha-ro-MES al-ha-A-rets

In contextGenesis 1:26

God {And He} said let us make humankind in our image according to our likeness {And} let them rule over the fish of the sea and over birds of the skies and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every crawling thing that crawls upon the earth

About this coordinate

Genesis 1:26:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Genesis 1:26, so the Hebrew word הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם (hashamayim) 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.1.26.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.1.26.W11.S1) and character.