Genesis 26:8:15Gen.26.8.W15PAT

מְצַחֵ֔ק

metsakhek

caressing

Transliteration
me-tsa-KHEK
Extended
meh-tsah-KHEK
IPA
/mə.tsa.ˈħeːq/

Meaning by language

English
caressing
French
caressant
Spanish
acariciando
Portuguese
acariciando
German
liebkosend
Russian
лаская
Arabic-Simplified
يُلَاعِبُ
Hindi
दुलारता हुआ
Chinese-Simplified
爱抚着
Korean
어루만지는
Indonesian
bercumbu
Bengali
সোহাগ করছে
Tagalog
nilalambing si
Swahili
akimbembeleza
Amharic
እየተጫወተ
Yoruba
ń fà mọ́ra
Igbo
na-amakụ
Twi
redi agorɔ
Ewe
le lalam

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Result
מְ + צַ + חֵ֔ק
me + tsa + khek
metsakhek

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Tsadets as in cats
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Qofq — deep k, uvular

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Word in context

  1. word

    me-tsa-KHEK

  2. clause

    va-YAR ve-hin-NEH yits-KHAK me-tsa-KHEK ET riv-KA ish-TO

  3. sentence

    va-ye-HI KI ar-khu-LO SHAM ha-ya-MIM va-yash-KEF a-vi-ME-lekh ME-lekh pe-lish-TIM be-AD ha-khal-LON va-YAR ve-hin-NEH yits-KHAK me-tsa-KHEK ET riv-KA ish-TO

In contextGenesis 26:8

when the days grew long for him there and it happened Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through the window behold he saw Isaac caressing Rebekah his wife

About this coordinate

Genesis 26:8:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Genesis 26:8, so the Hebrew word מְצַחֵ֔ק (metsakhek) 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.26.8.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.26.8.W15.S1) and character.