Genesis 11:9:1Gen.11.9.W1PAT
עַל־כֵּ֞ן
alken
“therefore”
- Transliteration
- al-KEN
- Extended
- ahl-KEHN
- IPA
- /ʕal.ˈkeːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- therefore
- French
- c'est pourquoi
- Spanish
- por eso
- Portuguese
- por isso
- German
- darum
- Russian
- поэтому
- Arabic-Simplified
- لذلك
- Hindi
- इसलिए
- Chinese-Simplified
- 因此
- Korean
- 그러므로
- Indonesian
- sebab itu
- Bengali
- সেই কারণে
- Tagalog
- kaya
- Swahili
- kwa hiyo
- Amharic
- ስለዚህ
- Yoruba
- nitori naa
- Igbo
- ya mere
- Twi
- enti
- Ewe
- eyata
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Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-KEN
- clause
al-KEN ka-RA she-MAH ba-VEL ki-SHAM ba-LAL Ye-ho-VAH se-FAT kol-ha-A-retz
- sentence
al-KEN ka-RA she-MAH ba-VEL ki-SHAM ba-LAL Ye-ho-VAH se-FAT kol-ha-A-retz u-mi-SHAM he-fi-TSAM Ye-ho-VAH al-pe-NEI kol-ha-A-retz
In context — Genesis 11:9
therefore its name was called Babel because there LORD confused language of all the earth and from there LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth
About this coordinate
Genesis 11:9:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 11:9, so the Hebrew word עַל־כֵּ֞ן (alken) 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.11.9.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.9.W1.S1) and character.