Genesis 11:10:4Gen.11.10.W4PAT

שֵׁ֚ם

shem

Shem

Transliteration
SHEM
Extended
SHEHM
IPA
/ˈʃeːm/

Meaning by language

English
Shem
French
Sem
Spanish
Sem
Portuguese
Sem
German
Sem
Russian
Сим
Arabic-Simplified
سَامٌ
Hindi
शेम
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
Indonesian
Sem
Bengali
শেম
Tagalog
Sem
Swahili
Shemu
Amharic
ሴም
Yoruba
Ṣẹmu
Igbo
Shem
Twi
Sem
Ewe
Sem

Alphabet Analysis

Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    SHEM

  2. clause

    E-le to-le-DOT SHEM SHEM ben-me-AT sha-NA va-YO-led et-ar-pakh-SHAD

  3. sentence

    E-le to-le-DOT SHEM SHEM ben-me-AT sha-NA va-YO-led et-ar-pakh-SHAD she-na-TA-yim a-KHAR ha-ma-BUL

In contextGenesis 11:10

these are the generations of Shem two years after the flood Shem aged one hundred years fathered Arpachshad

About this coordinate

Genesis 11:10:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 11:10, so the Hebrew word שֵׁ֚ם (shem) 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.11.10.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.10.W4.S1) and character.