Genesis 16:1:8Gen.16.1.W8PAT
שִׁפְחָ֥ה
shifkha
“a female servant”
- Transliteration
- shif-KHA
- Extended
- shihf-KHAA
- IPA
- /ʃif.ˈħaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a female servant
- French
- une servante
- Spanish
- una sierva
- Portuguese
- uma serva
- German
- eine Magd
- Russian
- служанка
- Arabic-Simplified
- جارية
- Hindi
- एक दासी
- Chinese-Simplified
- 一个婢女
- Korean
- 여종
- Indonesian
- seorang hamba perempuan
- Bengali
- এক দাসী
- Tagalog
- isang aliping babae
- Swahili
- mjakazi
- Amharic
- አንዲት ሴት ባሪያ
- Yoruba
- omobinrin iranṣẹ kan
- Igbo
- otu odibo nwanyi
- Twi
- afenaa bi
- Ewe
- dɔlanyɔnu aɖe
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
shif-KHA
- phraseyour reading level
shif-KHA mits-RIT
- clause
ve-LAH shif-KHA mits-RIT u-she-MAH ha-GAR
- sentence
ve-sa-RAI E-shet av-RAM LO ya-le-DA LO ve-LAH shif-KHA mits-RIT u-she-MAH ha-GAR
In context — Genesis 16:1
and Sarai wife of Abram had not borne to him and she had a female servant Egyptian and her name was Hagar
About this coordinate
Genesis 16:1:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 16:1, so the Hebrew word שִׁפְחָ֥ה (shifkha) 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.16.1.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.16.1.W8.S1) and character.