Genesis 11:4:8Gen.11.4.W8PAT
וְנַֽעֲשֶׂה־לָּ֖נוּ
venaaselanu
“make for ourselves”
- Transliteration
- ve-na-a-se-LA-nu
- Extended
- veh-nah-ah-seh-LAA-noo
- IPA
- /wə.na.ʕă.se.ˈlaː.nuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- make for ourselves
- French
- faire pour nous-mêmes
- Spanish
- hacer para nosotros mismos
- Portuguese
- fazer para nós mesmos
- German
- für uns machen
- Russian
- сделаем себе
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِنَصْنَعْ لَنَا
- Hindi
- अपने लिये बनाएँ
- Chinese-Simplified
- 为自己造
- Korean
- 우리를 위해 만들자
- Indonesian
- membuat bagi kita sendiri
- Bengali
- নিজেদের জন্য করি
- Tagalog
- gumawa para sa atin
- Swahili
- tujifanyie
- Amharic
- ለራሳችን እናድርግ
- Yoruba
- ṣe fún ara wa
- Igbo
- mee maka onwe anyị
- Twi
- yɛnyɛ mma yɛn ho
- Ewe
- wɔ na míaɖokui
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| 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
ve-na-a-se-LA-nu
- 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 11:4:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 11:4, so the Hebrew word וְנַֽעֲשֶׂה־לָּ֖נוּ (venaaselanu) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.4.W8.S1) and character.