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

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Result
נִשְׁ + בְּ + ע֖וּ
nish + be + u
nishbeu

Alphabet Analysis

Nunn as in new
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    nish-be-U

  2. phraseyour reading level

    SHAM nish-be-U

  3. clause

    KI SHAM nish-be-U she-NE-hem

  4. sentence

    al-KEN ka-RA lam-ma-KOM ha-HU be-ER SHA-va KI SHAM nish-be-U she-NE-hem

In contextGenesis 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.