Genesis 18:22:9Gen.18.22.W9PAT

לִפְנֵ֥י

lifnei

before

Transliteration
lif-NEI
Extended
lihf-NEE
IPA
/lif.ˈneː/

Meaning by language

English
before
French
devant
Spanish
delante de
Portuguese
diante de
German
vor
Russian
перед
Arabic-Simplified
أَمَامَ
Hindi
के सामने
Chinese-Simplified
在…面前
Korean
앞에
Indonesian
di hadapan
Bengali
সামনে
Tagalog
sa harap ng
Swahili
mbele ya
Amharic
በፊት
Yoruba
niwaju
Igbo
n'ihu
Twi
anim
Ewe
le ŋkume

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Result
לִפְ + נֵ֥י
lif + nei
lifnei

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Pep with dagesh; f without
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Nunn as in new
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    lif-NEI

  2. phraseyour reading level

    lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH

  3. clause

    ve-av-ra-HAM o-DE-nu o-MED lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH

  4. sentence

    va-yif-NU mi-SHAM ha-a-na-SHIM va-yel-KHU se-DO-ma ve-av-ra-HAM o-DE-nu o-MED lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH

In contextGenesis 18:22

the men turned from there went toward Sodom but Abraham still stood before LORD

About this coordinate

Genesis 18:22:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 18:22, so the Hebrew word לִפְנֵ֥י (lifnei) 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.18.22.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.18.22.W9.S1) and character.