Genesis 21:18:4Gen.21.18.W4PAT
וְהַחֲזִ֥יקִי
vehakhaziki
“hold”
- Transliteration
- ve-ha-kha-ZI-ki
- Extended
- veh-hah-khah-ZEE-kee
- IPA
- /wə.ha.ħă.ˈziː.qiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- hold
- French
- tiens
- Spanish
- mantén
- Portuguese
- mantém
- German
- halte
- Russian
- держи
- Arabic-Simplified
- أمسكي
- Hindi
- थामे रख
- Chinese-Simplified
- 扶住
- Korean
- 붙들어라
- Indonesian
- pegang
- Bengali
- ধরে রাখো
- Tagalog
- hawakan
- Swahili
- shika
- Amharic
- ያዢ
- Yoruba
- di
- Igbo
- jide
- Twi
- Kura mu
- Ewe
- lé ɖe
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ha-kha-ZI-ki
- phraseyour reading level
ve-ha-kha-ZI-ki et-ya-DEKH
- clause
ku-MI se-I et-ha-NA-ar ve-ha-kha-ZI-ki et-ya-DEKH BO
- sentence
ku-MI se-I et-ha-NA-ar ve-ha-kha-ZI-ki et-ya-DEKH BO ki-le-GOY ga-DOL a-si-MEN-nu
In context — Genesis 21:18
arise lift up the boy hold your hand on him for a nation great I will make him
About this coordinate
Genesis 21:18:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 21:18, so the Hebrew word וְהַחֲזִ֥יקִי (vehakhaziki) 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.21.18.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.21.18.W4.S1) and character.