Genesis 37:12:3Gen.37.12.W3PAT
לִרְע֛וֹת
lireot
“to pasture”
- Transliteration
- li-re-OT
- Extended
- lih-reh-OHT
- IPA
- /li.rə.ˈʕoːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- to pasture
- French
- pour faire paître
- Spanish
- a apacentar
- Portuguese
- para apascentar
- German
- um zu weiden
- Russian
- пасти
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِيَرْعَوْا
- Hindi
- चराने को
- Chinese-Simplified
- 去放牧
- Korean
- 먹이려고
- Indonesian
- untuk menggembalakan
- Bengali
- চরাতে
- Tagalog
- upang magpastol
- Swahili
- kuchunga
- Amharic
- ለማሰማራት
- Yoruba
- láti tọ́
- Igbo
- ịzụ
- Twi
- sɛ wɔnkɔhwɛ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
לִ + רְ + ע֛וֹת
↓
li + re + ot
↓
lireot
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| 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 | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
li-re-OT
- clause
li-re-OT et-TSON a-vi-HEM bi-she-KHEM
- sentence
va-ye-le-KHU e-KHAV li-re-OT et-TSON a-vi-HEM bi-she-KHEM
In context — Genesis 37:12
and went his brothers to pasture the flock of their father at Shechem
About this coordinate
Genesis 37:12:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 37:12, so the Hebrew word לִרְע֛וֹת (lireot) 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.37.12.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.37.12.W3.S1) and character.