Genesis 11:4:5Gen.11.4.W5PAT
וּמִגְדָּל֙
umigdal
“and a tower”
- Transliteration
- u-mig-DAL
- Extended
- oo-mig-DAAL
- IPA
- /u.miɣ.ˈdaːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- and a tower
- French
- et une tour
- Spanish
- y una torre
- Portuguese
- e uma torre
- German
- und einen Turm
- Russian
- и башню
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَبُرْجًا
- Hindi
- और एक मीनार
- Chinese-Simplified
- 和一座塔
- Korean
- 그리고 탑을
- Indonesian
- dan sebuah menara
- Bengali
- এবং একটি মিনার
- Tagalog
- at isang tore
- Swahili
- na mnara
- Amharic
- እና ግንብ
- Yoruba
- àti ilé-iṣọ kan
- Igbo
- na ulo-elu
- Twi
- ne abantenten bi
- Ewe
- kple xɔga ɖeka
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-mig-DAL
- 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 11:4:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 11:4, so the Hebrew word וּמִגְדָּל֙ (umigdal) 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.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.4.W5.S1) and character.