Genesis 21:31:9Gen.21.31.W9PAT
נִשְׁבְּע֖וּ
nishbeu
“swore”
- Transliteration
- nish-be-U
- Extended
- nihsh-beh-OO
- IPA
- /niʃ.bə.ˈʕuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- swore
- French
- jurèrent
- Spanish
- juraron
- Portuguese
- juraram
- German
- schworen
- Russian
- поклялись
- Arabic-Simplified
- أقسما
- Hindi
- शपथ ली
- Chinese-Simplified
- 起誓
- Korean
- 맹세하였다
- Indonesian
- bersumpah
- Bengali
- শপথ করল
- Tagalog
- sumumpa
- Swahili
- waliapa
- Amharic
- ማሉ
- Yoruba
- búra
- Igbo
- ṅụrụ iyi
- Twi
- kaa ntam
- Ewe
- do ka
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
נִשְׁ + בְּ + ע֖וּ
↓
nish + be + u
↓
nishbeu
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
nish-be-U
- phraseyour reading level
SHAM nish-be-U
- clause
KI SHAM nish-be-U she-NE-hem
- sentence
al-KEN ka-RA lam-ma-KOM ha-HU be-ER SHA-va KI SHAM nish-be-U she-NE-hem
In context — Genesis 21:31
therefore he called place that well of oath because there swore both of them
About this coordinate
Genesis 21:31:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 21:31, so the Hebrew word נִשְׁבְּע֖וּ (nishbeu) 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.21.31.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.21.31.W9.S1) and character.