Genesis 28:19:5Gen.28.19.W5PAT

וְאוּלָ֛ם

veulam

but

Transliteration
ve-u-LAM
Extended
veh-oo-LAAM
IPA
/və.ʔu.ˈlaːm/

Meaning by language

English
but
French
mais
Spanish
pero
Portuguese
porém
German
aber
Russian
но
Arabic-Simplified
لكن
Hindi
परन्तु
Chinese-Simplified
然而
Korean
그러나
Indonesian
tetapi
Bengali
কিন্তু
Tagalog
ngunit
Swahili
lakini
Amharic
ነገር ግን
Yoruba
ṣùgbọ́n
Igbo
ma
Twi
nanso
Ewe
gake

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Result
וְא + וּ + לָ֛ם
ve + u + lam
veulam

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Lamedl as in law
Qametslong 'ah'
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-u-LAM

  2. clause

    ve-u-LAM LUZ shem-ha-IR la-ri-sho-NA

  3. sentence

    va-yik-RA et-shem-ha-ma-KOM ha-HU beit-EL ve-u-LAM LUZ shem-ha-IR la-ri-sho-NA

In contextGenesis 28:19

he called the name of the place that Bethel but Luz the name of the city formerly

About this coordinate

Genesis 28:19:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 28:19, so the Hebrew word וְאוּלָ֛ם (veulam) 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.28.19.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.28.19.W5.S1) and character.