Genesis 18:29:6Gen.18.29.W6PAT
אוּלַ֛י
ulai
“perhaps”
- Transliteration
- u-LAI
- Extended
- oo-LAI
- IPA
- /ʔuːˈlaj/
Meaning by language
- English
- perhaps
- French
- peut-être
- Spanish
- quizá
- Portuguese
- talvez
- German
- vielleicht
- Russian
- может быть
- Arabic-Simplified
- لَعَلَّ
- Hindi
- शायद
- Chinese-Simplified
- 或许
- Korean
- 아마
- Indonesian
- mungkin
- Bengali
- হয়তো
- Tagalog
- marahil
- Swahili
- labda
- Amharic
- ምናልባት
- Yoruba
- bóyá
- Igbo
- ma eleghị anya
- Twi
- ebia
- Ewe
- ɖewohĩ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-LAI
- clause
va-yo-SEF OD le-dab-BER e-LAV va-yo-MAR u-LAI yim-ma-tse-UN SHAM ar-ba-IM
- sentence
va-yo-SEF OD le-dab-BER e-LAV va-yo-MAR u-LAI yim-ma-tse-UN SHAM ar-ba-IM va-yo-MER LO e-e-SE ba-a-VUR ha-ar-ba-IM
In context — Genesis 18:29
again He continued to speak to him He said perhaps forty will be found there He said for the sake of the forty not I will do
About this coordinate
Genesis 18:29:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 18:29, so the Hebrew word אוּלַ֛י (ulai) 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.18.29.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.18.29.W6.S1) and character.