Genesis 2:6:4Gen.2.6.W4PAT
וְהִשְׁקָ֖ה
vehishka
“and watered”
- Transliteration
- ve-hish-KA
- Extended
- veh-hish-KAA
- IPA
- /və.hiʃ.ˈqaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and watered
- French
- et arrosait
- Spanish
- y regaba
- Portuguese
- e regava
- German
- und bewässerte
- Russian
- и орошал
- Arabic-Simplified
- ويروي
- Hindi
- और सींचता था
- Chinese-Simplified
- 并浇灌
- Korean
- 그리고 적셨다
- Indonesian
- dan membasahi
- Bengali
- এবং সেচ দিত
- Tagalog
- at dinidilig
- Swahili
- na ulimwagilia
- Amharic
- እና ያጠጣ ነበር
- Yoruba
- ó sì ń bomi sí
- Igbo
- ma na-agba mmiri na
- Twi
- na ɛguu so nsu
- Ewe
- eye tsina
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
וְ + הִשְׁ + קָ֖ה
↓
ve + hish + ka
↓
vehishka
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-hish-KA
- clause
ve-hish-KA et-kol-pe-nei-ha-a-da-MA
- sentence
ve-ED ya-a-LE min-ha-A-rets ve-hish-KA et-kol-pe-nei-ha-a-da-MA
In context — Genesis 2:6
but a mist rose from the land and watered the whole surface of the ground
About this coordinate
Genesis 2:6:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 2:6, so the Hebrew word וְהִשְׁקָ֖ה (vehishka) 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.2.6.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.2.6.W4.S1) and character.