Genesis 28:17:3Gen.28.17.W3PAT

מַה־נּוֹרָ֖א

mahnora

how fearsome

Transliteration
mah-no-RA
Extended
mah-noh-RAA
IPA
/mah.nnoː.ˈraː/

Meaning by language

English
how fearsome
French
combien redoutable
Spanish
cuán temible
Portuguese
quão temível
German
wie furchtbar
Russian
как страшно
Arabic-Simplified
مَا أَهْيَبَ
Hindi
कितना भयानक
Chinese-Simplified
何等可畏
Korean
얼마나 두려운가
Indonesian
betapa menakutkan
Bengali
কত ভয়ঙ্কর
Tagalog
gaano kakila-kilabot
Swahili
jinsi ilivyo ya kutisha
Amharic
ምን ያህል የሚያስፈራ
Yoruba
bí ó ti ń bani lẹ́rù tó
Igbo
lee ka ọ dị egwu
Twi
ɛyɛ hu paa
Ewe
aleke vɔ̃

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
מַהנּ + וֹ + רָ֖א
mah + no + ra
mahnora

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Nunn as in new
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Qametslong 'ah'
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    mah-no-RA

  2. clause

    va-yi-RA va-yo-MAR mah-no-RA ha-ma-KOM ha-ZEH

  3. sentence

    va-yi-RA va-yo-MAR mah-no-RA ha-ma-KOM ha-ZEH EIN ZEH KI im-BEIT e-lo-HIM ve-ZEH SHA-ar ha-sha-MA-yim

In contextGenesis 28:17

was afraid said how fearsome place this is nothing this but the house of God and this the gate of the heavens

About this coordinate

Genesis 28:17:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 28:17, so the Hebrew word מַה־נּוֹרָ֖א (mahnora) 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.28.17.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.28.17.W3.S1) and character.