Genesis 13:16:9Gen.13.16.W9PAT
אֶת־עֲפַ֣ר
etafar
“the dust of the”
- Transliteration
- et-a-FAR
- Extended
- eht-ah-FAHR
- IPA
- /ʔɛt.ʕă.ˈfar/
Meaning by language
- English
- the dust of the
- French
- la poussière de la
- Spanish
- el polvo de la
- Portuguese
- o pó da
- German
- den Staub der
- Russian
- прах
- Arabic-Simplified
- غبار
- Hindi
- धूल
- Chinese-Simplified
- 尘土
- Korean
- 티끌을
- Indonesian
- debu
- Bengali
- ধূলি
- Tagalog
- ang alabok ng
- Swahili
- mavumbi ya
- Amharic
- ትቢያ
- Yoruba
- erùpẹ̀ ti
- Igbo
- uzuzu nke
- Twi
- dɔte
- Ewe
- anyi si
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
et-a-FAR
- phraseyour reading level
et-a-FAR ha-A-rets
- clause
a-SHER im-yu-KHAL ISH li-me-NOT et-a-FAR ha-A-rets gam-za-re-a-KHA yim-ma-NEH
- sentence
ve-sam-TI et-za-re-a-KHA ka-a-FAR ha-A-rets a-SHER im-yu-KHAL ISH li-me-NOT et-a-FAR ha-A-rets gam-za-re-a-KHA yim-ma-NEH
In context — Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth so that if can a man count the dust of the earth also your offspring will be counted
About this coordinate
Genesis 13:16:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 13:16, so the Hebrew word אֶת־עֲפַ֣ר (etafar) 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.13.16.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.13.16.W9.S1) and character.