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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Result
הַ + יָּ֜ם
ha + yam
hayam

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Qametslong 'ah'
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-YAM

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-yir-DU vid-GAT ha-YAM

  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 1:26:9 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.