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
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
li-SHMOR
- 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
- 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 context — Genesis 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.