Genesis 38:14:17Gen.38.14.W17PAT

שֵׁלָ֔ה

shela

Shelah

Transliteration
she-LA
Extended
shee-LAA
IPA
/ʃeːˈlaː/

Meaning by language

English
Shelah
French
Shéla
Spanish
Shelá
Portuguese
Selá
German
Schela
Russian
Шела
Arabic-Simplified
شيلة
Hindi
शेलाह
Chinese-Simplified
示拉
Korean
셀라
Indonesian
Syela
Bengali
শেলাহ
Tagalog
Shela
Swahili
Shela
Amharic
ሴላ
Yoruba
Sela
Igbo
Shela
Twi
Sela

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Result
שֵׁ + לָ֔ה
she + la
shela

Alphabet Analysis

Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Lamedl as in law
Qametslong 'ah'
Heh as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    she-LA

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ki-ga-DAL she-LA

  3. clause

    KI ra-a-TA ki-ga-DAL she-LA ve-HI lo-ni-te-NA LO le-i-SHA

  4. sentence

    va-ta-SAR bi-ge-DEI a-le-me-nu-TAH me-a-LE-ha va-te-KHAS ba-tsa-IF va-ti-te-a-LAF va-TE-shev be-FE-takh ei-NA-yim a-SHER al-DE-rekh ti-me-NA-ta KI ra-a-TA ki-ga-DAL she-LA ve-HI lo-ni-te-NA LO le-i-SHA

In contextGenesis 38:14

and she removed garments of her widowhood from upon her and she covered with the veil and she wrapped herself and she sat at the entrance of Enaim which on the road to toward Timnah for she saw that had grown Shelah and she had not been given to him as a wife

About this coordinate

Genesis 38:14:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Genesis 38:14, so the Hebrew word שֵׁלָ֔ה (shela) 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.38.14.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.38.14.W17.S1) and character.