Genesis 15:12:9Gen.15.12.W9PAT
חֲשֵׁכָ֥ה
khashekha
“darkness”
- Transliteration
- kha-she-KHA
- Extended
- khah-sheh-KHAA
- IPA
- /ħă.ʃeː.ˈxaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- darkness
- French
- obscurité
- Spanish
- oscuridad
- Portuguese
- escuridão
- German
- Finsternis
- Russian
- тьма
- Arabic-Simplified
- ظُلْمَةٌ
- Hindi
- अंधकार
- Chinese-Simplified
- 黑暗
- Korean
- 어둠
- Indonesian
- kegelapan
- Bengali
- অন্ধকার
- Tagalog
- kadiliman
- Swahili
- giza
- Amharic
- ጨለማ
- Yoruba
- òkùnkùn
- Igbo
- ọchịchịrị
- Twi
- esum
- Ewe
- viviti
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-she-KHA
- phraseyour reading level
kha-she-KHA ge-do-LA
- clause
ve-hin-NE ei-MA kha-she-KHA ge-do-LA no-FE-let a-LAV
- sentence
va-ye-HI ha-SHE-mesh la-VO ve-tar-de-MA naf-LA al-av-RAM ve-hin-NE ei-MA kha-she-KHA ge-do-LA no-FE-let a-LAV
In context — Genesis 15:12
the sun it happened to set upon Abram fell and a deep sleep and behold terror great darkness falling upon him
About this coordinate
Genesis 15:12:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 15:12, so the Hebrew word חֲשֵׁכָ֥ה (khashekha) 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.15.12.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.15.12.W9.S1) and character.