Genesis 11:5:3Gen.11.5.W3PAT
לִרְאֹ֥ת
lireot
“to look at”
- Transliteration
- li-re-OT
- Extended
- lih-reh-OHT
- IPA
- /lir.ˈʔoːθ/
Meaning by language
- English
- to look at
- French
- pour regarder
- Spanish
- para mirar
- Portuguese
- para olhar
- German
- um zu betrachten
- Russian
- осмотреть
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِيُشَاهِدَ
- Hindi
- देखने हेतु
- Chinese-Simplified
- 查看
- Korean
- 보려고
- Indonesian
- untuk melihat
- Bengali
- দেখতে
- Tagalog
- upang tingnan
- Swahili
- kutazama
- Amharic
- ለማየት
- Yoruba
- láti wo
- Igbo
- hụ
- Twi
- hwɛ
- Ewe
- kpɔ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
li-re-OT
- phraseyour reading level
li-re-OT et-ha-IR
- clause
va-YE-red Ye-ho-VAH li-re-OT et-ha-IR ve-et-ha-mig-DAL
- sentence
va-YE-red Ye-ho-VAH li-re-OT et-ha-IR ve-et-ha-mig-DAL a-SHER ba-NU be-NEI ha-a-DAM
In context — Genesis 11:5
LORD {And} descended to look at the city and the tower which sons of humanity built
About this coordinate
Genesis 11:5:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 11:5, so the Hebrew word לִרְאֹ֥ת (lireot) 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.11.5.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.5.W3.S1) and character.