Genesis 11:4:3Gen.11.4.W3PAT
נִבְנֶה־לָּ֣נוּ
nivnehlanu
“build for ourselves”
- Transliteration
- ni-vneh-LA-nu
- Extended
- nih-vneh-LAA-noo
- IPA
- /niv.nɛ.ˈlaː.nuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- build for ourselves
- French
- bâtissons pour nous-mêmes
- Spanish
- construyamos para nosotros mismos
- Portuguese
- construamos para nós mesmos
- German
- für uns bauen
- Russian
- построим себе
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِنَبْنِ لَنَا
- Hindi
- अपने लिये बनाएँ
- Chinese-Simplified
- 为自己建造
- Korean
- 우리를 위해 세우자
- Indonesian
- membangun bagi kita sendiri
- Bengali
- নিজেদের জন্য গড়ি
- Tagalog
- magtayo para sa atin
- Swahili
- tujijengee
- Amharic
- ለራሳችን እንገንባ
- Yoruba
- ẹ jẹ́ ká kọ́ fún ara wa
- Igbo
- wuo maka onwe anyị
- Twi
- yɛnsi mma yɛn ho
- Ewe
- míatu na míaɖokui
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ni-vneh-LA-nu
- phraseyour reading level
ha-VA ni-vneh-LA-nu IR
- clause
va-yom-RU ha-VA ni-vneh-LA-nu IR u-mig-DAL ve-RO-sho va-sha-MA-yim ve-na-a-se-LA-nu SHEM
- sentence
va-yom-RU ha-VA ni-vneh-LA-nu IR u-mig-DAL ve-RO-sho va-sha-MA-yim ve-na-a-se-LA-nu SHEM pen-na-FUTS al-pe-NEI khol-ha-A-rets
In context — Genesis 11:4
said come build for ourselves a city and a tower and its top in the heavens make for ourselves a name be dispersed over the surface of the entire earth
About this coordinate
Genesis 11:4:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 11:4, so the Hebrew word נִבְנֶה־לָּ֣נוּ (nivnehlanu) 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.11.4.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.4.W3.S1) and character.