Genesis 2:19:20Gen.2.19.W20PAT
ה֥וּא
hu
“that was”
- Transliteration
- HU
- Extended
- HOO
- IPA
- /ˈhuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- that was
- French
- cela fut
- Spanish
- eso fue
- Portuguese
- isso foi
- German
- das war
- Russian
- это было
- Arabic-Simplified
- هُوَ
- Hindi
- वही था
- Chinese-Simplified
- 就是
- Korean
- 그것이 바로
- Indonesian
- itulah
- Bengali
- তাই ছিল
- Tagalog
- iyon ay
- Swahili
- hicho kilikuwa
- Amharic
- ነበር
- Yoruba
- ìyẹn ni
- Igbo
- nke ahụ bụ
- Twi
- ɛno ne
- Ewe
- eyae nye
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
HU
- phraseyour reading level
HU she-MO
- clause
ve-KHOL a-SHER yik-ra-LO ha-a-DAM NE-fesh khai-YA HU she-MO
- sentence
va-yi-TSER Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM min-ha-a-da-MA kol-khai-YAT ha-sa-DE ve-ET kol-OF ha-sha-MA-yim va-ya-VE el-ha-a-DAM li-re-OT mah-yik-ra-LO ve-KHOL a-SHER yik-ra-LO ha-a-DAM NE-fesh khai-YA HU she-MO
In context — Genesis 2:19
LORD God {And He} formed from the ground every beast of the field and every bird of the skies {And} He brought to the man to see what he would call it creature living and all that {He} would call it the man that was its name
About this coordinate
Genesis 2:19:20 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 20 of Genesis 2:19, so the Hebrew word ה֥וּא (hu) 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.2.19.W20, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.2.19.W20.S1) and character.