Genesis 31:19:3Gen.31.19.W3PAT
לִגְזֹ֖ז
ligezzoz
“to shear”
- Transliteration
- li-gez-ZOZ
- Extended
- lih-geh-ZOHZ
- IPA
- /li.ɣə.ˈzoːz/
Meaning by language
- English
- to shear
- French
- pour tondre
- Spanish
- a esquilar
- Portuguese
- para tosquiar
- German
- um zu scheren
- Russian
- стричь
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِجَزِّ
- Hindi
- ऊन कतरने
- Chinese-Simplified
- 剪毛
- Korean
- 털을 깎으러
- Indonesian
- untuk menggunting bulu
- Bengali
- লোম কাটতে
- Tagalog
- upang gupitan
- Swahili
- kunyoa
- Amharic
- ለመግረዝ
- Yoruba
- lati gé irun
- Igbo
- ịkpa ajị
- Twi
- kotwitwa
- Ewe
- be kpá
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Zayin | z as in zero |
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The word
Word in context
- word
li-gez-ZOZ
- clause
ve-la-VAN ha-LAKH li-gez-ZOZ et-tso-a-NO
- sentence
ve-la-VAN ha-LAKH li-gez-ZOZ et-tso-a-NO va-tig-NOV ra-KHEL et-hat-te-ra-FIM a-SHER le-a-VI-ha
In context — Genesis 31:19
and Laban had gone to shear his flock stole Rachel the household idols that belonged to her father
About this coordinate
Genesis 31:19:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 31:19, so the Hebrew word לִגְזֹ֖ז (ligezzoz) 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.31.19.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.31.19.W3.S1) and character.