Genesis 11:3:8Gen.11.3.W8PAT
לִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה
lisrefa
“for burning”
- Transliteration
- lis-re-FA
- Extended
- lihs-reh-FAA
- IPA
- /lis.reːˈfaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- for burning
- French
- pour brûler
- Spanish
- para quemar
- Portuguese
- para queimar
- German
- zum Verbrennen
- Russian
- для сжигания
- Arabic-Simplified
- للحرق
- Hindi
- जलाने के लिए
- Chinese-Simplified
- 用于焚烧
- Korean
- 태우기 위해
- Indonesian
- untuk dibakar
- Bengali
- পোড়ানোর জন্য
- Tagalog
- upang sunugin
- Swahili
- kwa kuchoma
- Amharic
- ለማቃጠል
- Yoruba
- fún sisun
- Igbo
- maka ịkụ ọkụ
- Twi
- hyew
- Ewe
- na dzoɖo
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
lis-re-FA
- clause
va-yom-RU ISH el-re-EH-hu HA-va nil-be-NA leh-ve-NEEM veh-nis-re-FA lis-re-FA
- sentence
va-yom-RU ISH el-re-EH-hu HA-va nil-be-NA leh-ve-NEEM veh-nis-re-FA lis-re-FA va-te-HI la-HEM hal-le-ve-NA le-A-ven veh-ha-khe-MAR ha-YA la-HEM la-KHO-mer
In context — Genesis 11:3
each one {And} they said to his fellow come let us make bricks {And} let us burn for burning the brick {And} became for them as stone and the bitumen was for them for mortar
About this coordinate
Genesis 11:3:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 11:3, so the Hebrew word לִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה (lisrefa) 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.11.3.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.3.W8.S1) and character.