Genesis 3:24:11Gen.3.24.W11PAT

לִשְׁמֹ֕ר

lishmor

to guard

Transliteration
li-SHMOR
Extended
lih-SHMOHR
IPA
/liʃˈmoːr/

Meaning by language

English
to guard
French
pour garder
Spanish
para guardar
Portuguese
para guardar
German
um zu bewachen
Russian
чтобы охранять
Arabic-Simplified
لِحِرَاسَةِ
Hindi
रक्षा करने के लिए
Chinese-Simplified
为守护
Korean
지키기 위하여
Indonesian
untuk menjaga
Bengali
রক্ষা করতে
Tagalog
upang bantayan
Swahili
kulinda
Amharic
ለመጠበቅ
Yoruba
láti ṣọ́
Igbo
ichekwa
Twi
sɛ ɔbɛhwɛ so
Ewe
be yeadzra

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Result
לִ + שְׁמֹ֕ר
li + shmor
lishmor

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Memm as in mother
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    li-SHMOR

  2. clause

    va-yash-KEN mi-KE-dem le-gan-E-den et-ha-ke-ru-VIM ve-ET LA-hat ha-KHE-rev ha-mit-ha-PE-khet li-SHMOR et-DE-rekh ETS ha-khai-YIM

  3. sentence

    va-ye-GA-resh et-ha-a-DAM va-yash-KEN mi-KE-dem le-gan-E-den et-ha-ke-ru-VIM ve-ET LA-hat ha-KHE-rev ha-mit-ha-PE-khet li-SHMOR et-DE-rekh ETS ha-khai-YIM

In contextGenesis 3:24

He expelled the man He set the cherubim and the flame of the sword turning on the east side of the garden of Eden to guard the path to the tree of life

About this coordinate

Genesis 3:24:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Genesis 3:24, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁמֹ֕ר (lishmor) 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.3.24.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.3.24.W11.S1) and character.