Genesis 11:8:5Gen.11.8.W5PAT
עַל־פְּנֵ֣י
alpenei
“over the surface of”
- Transliteration
- al-pe-NEI
- Extended
- ahl-peh-NEE
- IPA
- /ʕal.pə.ˈneː/
Meaning by language
- English
- over the surface of
- French
- sur la surface de
- Spanish
- sobre la superficie de
- Portuguese
- sobre a superfície de
- German
- über die Fläche der
- Russian
- по поверхности
- Arabic-Simplified
- عَلَى وَجْهِ
- Hindi
- के ऊपर
- Chinese-Simplified
- 之上
- Korean
- 표면 위에
- Indonesian
- di atas permukaan
- Bengali
- পৃষ্ঠের উপর
- Tagalog
- sa ibabaw ng
- Swahili
- juu ya uso wa
- Amharic
- ላይ
- Yoruba
- lori oju ti
- Igbo
- n'elu ihu
- Twi
- anim so
- Ewe
- le ŋgɔ dzi
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
al-pe-NEI
- phraseyour reading level
al-pe-NEI khol-ha-A-rets
- clause
va-ya-FETS Ye-ho-VAH o-TAM mi-SHAM al-pe-NEI khol-ha-A-rets
- sentence
va-ya-FETS Ye-ho-VAH o-TAM mi-SHAM al-pe-NEI khol-ha-A-rets va-yakh-de-LU li-ve-NOT ha-IR
In context — Genesis 11:8
LORD scattered them from there over the surface of all the earth they ceased to build the city
About this coordinate
Genesis 11:8:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 11:8, so the Hebrew word עַל־פְּנֵ֣י (alpenei) 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.11.8.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.8.W5.S1) and character.