Genesis 11:9:8Gen.11.9.W8PAT
שְׂפַ֣ת
sefat
“language of”
- Transliteration
- se-FAT
- Extended
- seh-FAHT
- IPA
- /sə.ˈfat/
Meaning by language
- English
- language of
- French
- langue de
- Spanish
- lengua de
- Portuguese
- língua de
- German
- Sprache der
- Russian
- язык
- Arabic-Simplified
- لغة
- Hindi
- भाषा
- Chinese-Simplified
- 语言
- Korean
- 언어
- Indonesian
- bahasa
- Bengali
- ভাষা
- Tagalog
- wika ng
- Swahili
- lugha ya
- Amharic
- ቋንቋ
- Yoruba
- ede ti
- Igbo
- asụsụ nke
- Twi
- kasa
- Ewe
- gbegblẽ si
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
se-FAT
- phraseyour reading level
se-FAT kol-ha-A-retz
- 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 11:9:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 11:9, so the Hebrew word שְׂפַ֣ת (sefat) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.9.W8.S1) and character.