Genesis 10:11:8Gen.10.11.W8PAT

עִ֖יר

ir

city

Transliteration
IR
Extended
EER
IPA
/ˈʕiːr/

Meaning by language

English
city
French
ville
Spanish
ciudad
Portuguese
cidade
German
Stadt
Russian
город
Arabic-Simplified
مدينة
Hindi
नगर
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
성읍
Indonesian
kota
Bengali
নগর
Tagalog
lungsod
Swahili
mji
Amharic
ከተማ
Yoruba
ìlú
Igbo
obodo
Twi
kurow
Ewe
du

Alphabet Analysis

Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    IR

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-et-re-kho-VOT IR

  3. clause

    va-yi-VEN et-ni-ne-VE ve-et-re-kho-VOT IR ve-et-KA-lakh

  4. sentence

    min-ha-A-rets ha-HI ya-TSA ash-SHUR va-yi-VEN et-ni-ne-VE ve-et-re-kho-VOT IR ve-et-KA-lakh

In contextGenesis 10:11

from the land that went out Asshur built Nineveh and Rehoboth city and Calah

About this coordinate

Genesis 10:11:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 10:11, so the Hebrew word עִ֖יר (ir) 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.10.11.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.10.11.W8.S1) and character.