Genesis 3:8:1Gen.3.8.W1PAT
וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֞וּ
vayishmehu
“{And} heard”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-meh-U
- Extended
- vah-yish-meh-OO
- IPA
- /waj.jiʃ.mə.ˈʕuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- {And} heard
- French
- {Et} entendirent
- Spanish
- {Y} oyeron
- Portuguese
- {E} ouviram
- German
- {Und} hörten
- Russian
- {И} услышали
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَسَمِعُوا
- Hindi
- सुनी
- Chinese-Simplified
- 听见了
- Korean
- 들었다
- Indonesian
- {Dan} mendengar
- Bengali
- শুনল
- Tagalog
- at narinig
- Swahili
- wakasikia
- Amharic
- ሰሙ
- Yoruba
- gbọ́
- Igbo
- nụrụ
- Twi
- wɔtee
- Ewe
- woase
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| 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 | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-meh-U
- clause
va-yish-meh-U et-KOL Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM miht-hal-LEKH ba-GAN le-RU-akh ha-YOM
- sentence
va-yish-meh-U et-KOL Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM miht-hal-LEKH ba-GAN le-RU-akh ha-YOM va-yit-kha-BEH ha-a-DAM ve-ish-TO mip-NEI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM be-TOKH ETS ha-GAN
In context — Genesis 3:8
{And} heard sound of LORD God moving about in the garden in the breeze of the day the man and his wife {And} hid themselves from before LORD God within tree of the garden
About this coordinate
Genesis 3:8:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 3:8, so the Hebrew word וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֞וּ (vayishmehu) 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.3.8.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.3.8.W1.S1) and character.