Genesis 19:16:15Gen.19.16.W15PAT
לָעִֽיר׃
lair
“the city”
- Transliteration
- la-IR
- Extended
- lah-EER
- IPA
- /laː.ˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the city
- French
- la ville
- Spanish
- la ciudad
- Portuguese
- a cidade
- German
- der Stadt
- Russian
- города
- Arabic-Simplified
- الْمَدِينَةِ
- Hindi
- नगर के
- Chinese-Simplified
- 那城的
- Korean
- 그 성읍의
- Indonesian
- kota itu
- Bengali
- নগরের
- Tagalog
- lungsod
- Swahili
- mji
- Amharic
- ከተማይቱ
- Yoruba
- ìlú náà
- Igbo
- obodo ahụ
- Twi
- kuro no
- Ewe
- dua la
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-IR
- phraseyour reading level
mi-KHUTS la-IR
- clause
va-yo-tsi-U-hu va-ya-ni-KHU-hu mi-KHUTS la-IR
- sentence
va-yit-mah-MAH va-ya-kha-ZI-ku ha-a-na-SHIM be-ya-DO u-ve-yad-ish-TO u-ve-YAD she-TEI ve-no-TAV be-khem-LAT Ye-ho-VAH a-LAV va-yo-tsi-U-hu va-ya-ni-KHU-hu mi-KHUTS la-IR
In context — Genesis 19:16
he lingered the men seized by his hand and by the hand of his wife and by the hand of two his daughters in the compassion of the LORD upon him they brought him out they set him outside of the city
About this coordinate
Genesis 19:16:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Genesis 19:16, so the Hebrew word לָעִֽיר׃ (lair) 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.19.16.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.19.16.W15.S1) and character.