Genesis 1:26:9Gen.1.26.W9PAT
הַיָּ֜ם
hayam
“the sea”
- Transliteration
- ha-YAM
- Extended
- hah-YAAM
- IPA
- /hajˈjaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- the sea
- French
- la mer
- Spanish
- mar
- Portuguese
- mar
- German
- Meeres
- Russian
- моря
- Arabic-Simplified
- البحر
- Hindi
- समुद्र की
- Chinese-Simplified
- 海里的
- Korean
- 바다의
- Indonesian
- laut
- Bengali
- সমুদ্রের
- Tagalog
- dagat
- Swahili
- bahari
- Amharic
- ባሕር
- Yoruba
- òkun
- Igbo
- oké osimiri
- Twi
- po no
- Ewe
- atsiaƒu
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Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ha-YAM
- phraseyour reading level
ve-yir-DU vid-GAT ha-YAM
- 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
- 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 context — Genesis 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 1:26:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 1:26, so the Hebrew word הַיָּ֜ם (hayam) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.1.26.W9.S1) and character.