Genesis 18:16:4Gen.18.16.W4PAT
וַיַּשְׁקִ֖פוּ
vayashkifu
“looked down”
- Transliteration
- va-yash-KI-fu
- Extended
- vah-yash-KEE-foo
- IPA
- /waj.jaʃ.ˈqiː.fuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- looked down
- French
- regardèrent en bas
- Spanish
- miraron hacia abajo
- Portuguese
- olharam para baixo
- German
- blickten hinab
- Russian
- посмотрели вниз
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَأَشْرَفُوا
- Hindi
- नीचे देखा
- Chinese-Simplified
- 俯视
- Korean
- 내려다보았다
- Indonesian
- memandang ke bawah
- Bengali
- নীচের দিকে তাকাল
- Tagalog
- tumingin pababa
- Swahili
- wakaangalia chini
- Amharic
- ወደታች ተመለከቱ
- Yoruba
- wo sísàlẹ̀
- Igbo
- lere anya n'ala
- Twi
- hwɛɛ fam
- Ewe
- kpɔ ɖe anyi
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yash-KI-fu
- clause
va-ya-KU-mu mi-SHAM ha-a-na-SHIM va-yash-KI-fu al-pe-NEI se-DOM
- sentence
va-ya-KU-mu mi-SHAM ha-a-na-SHIM va-yash-KI-fu al-pe-NEI se-DOM ve-a-ve-ra-HAM ho-LEKH im-MAM le-shal-KHAM
In context — Genesis 18:16
the men arose from there looked down toward Sodom and Abraham went with them to send them off
About this coordinate
Genesis 18:16:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 18:16, so the Hebrew word וַיַּשְׁקִ֖פוּ (vayashkifu) 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.18.16.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.18.16.W4.S1) and character.