Genesis 11:4:9Gen.11.4.W9PAT
שֵׁ֑ם
shem
“a name”
- Transliteration
- SHEM
- Extended
- SHEHM
- IPA
- /ˈʃeːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- a name
- French
- un nom
- Spanish
- un nombre
- Portuguese
- um nome
- German
- einen Namen
- Russian
- имя
- Arabic-Simplified
- اسْمًا
- Hindi
- एक नाम
- Chinese-Simplified
- 一个名
- Korean
- 이름을
- Indonesian
- sebuah nama
- Bengali
- একটি নাম
- Tagalog
- isang pangalan
- Swahili
- jina
- Amharic
- ስም
- Yoruba
- orúkọ kan
- Igbo
- aha
- Twi
- din
- Ewe
- ŋkɔ
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
SHEM
- 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 11:4:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 11:4, so the Hebrew word שֵׁ֑ם (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.11.4.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.4.W9.S1) and character.