Genesis 2:17:5Gen.2.17.W5PAT

לֹ֥א

lo

you shall not

Transliteration
LO
Extended
LOH
IPA
/ˈloː/

Meaning by language

English
you shall not
French
ne
Spanish
no
Portuguese
não
German
sollst nicht
Russian
не
Arabic-Simplified
لا
Hindi
मत
Chinese-Simplified
不可
Korean
Indonesian
jangan
Bengali
না
Tagalog
huwag
Swahili
huta
Amharic
አት
Yoruba
Igbo
agaghị
Twi
n
Ewe
me

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    LO

  2. phraseyour reading level

    LO to-KHAL

  3. clause

    u-me-ETS ha-DA-at TOV va-RA LO to-KHAL mim-ME-nu

  4. sentence

    u-me-ETS ha-DA-at TOV va-RA LO to-KHAL mim-ME-nu KI be-YOM a-khol-KHA mim-ME-nu MOT ta-MUT

In contextGenesis 2:17

you shall not eat but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of it for in the day of your eating of it surely you shall die

About this coordinate

Genesis 2:17:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 2:17, so the Hebrew word לֹ֥א (lo) 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.2.17.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.2.17.W5.S1) and character.