Genesis 18:29:9Gen.18.29.W9PAT
אַרְבָּעִ֑ים
arbaim
“forty”
- Transliteration
- ar-ba-IM
- Extended
- ahr-bah-EEM
- IPA
- /ʔar.baːˈʕiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- forty
- French
- quarante
- Spanish
- cuarenta
- Portuguese
- quarenta
- German
- vierzig
- Russian
- сорок
- Arabic-Simplified
- أَرْبَعُونَ
- Hindi
- चालीस
- Chinese-Simplified
- 四十
- Korean
- 마흔
- Indonesian
- empat puluh
- Bengali
- চল্লিশ
- Tagalog
- apatnapu
- Swahili
- arobaini
- Amharic
- አርባ
- Yoruba
- ogójì
- Igbo
- iri anọ
- Twi
- aduanan
- Ewe
- blaene ene
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ar-ba-IM
- 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 18:29:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 18:29, so the Hebrew word אַרְבָּעִ֑ים (arbaim) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.18.29.W9.S1) and character.