Genesis 11:9:13Gen.11.9.W13PAT
עַל־פְּנֵ֖י
alpenei
“over the face of”
- Transliteration
- al-pe-NEI
- Extended
- ahl-peh-NEE
- IPA
- /ʕal.pə.ˈneː/
Meaning by language
- English
- over the face of
- French
- sur la face de
- Spanish
- sobre la faz de
- Portuguese
- sobre a face de
- German
- über die Fläche der
- Russian
- по лицу
- Arabic-Simplified
- على وجه
- Hindi
- मुख पर
- Chinese-Simplified
- 表面上
- Korean
- 표면 위에
- Indonesian
- di atas permukaan
- Bengali
- পৃষ্ঠে
- Tagalog
- sa ibabaw ng mukha ng
- Swahili
- juu ya uso wa
- Amharic
- ፊት ላይ
- Yoruba
- lori oju ti
- Igbo
- n'elu ihu
- Twi
- wɔ ani 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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The word
Word in context
- word
al-pe-NEI
- clause
u-mi-SHAM he-fi-TSAM Ye-ho-VAH al-pe-NEI 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 11:9:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Genesis 11:9, so the Hebrew word עַל־פְּנֵ֖י (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.11.9.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.9.W13.S1) and character.