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
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
mah-no-RA
- clause
va-yi-RA va-yo-MAR mah-no-RA ha-ma-KOM ha-ZEH
- 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 context — Genesis 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.