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

Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    SHEM

  2. 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

  3. 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 contextGenesis 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.