Genesis 38:14:21Gen.38.14.W21PAT
לְאִשָּֽׁה׃
leisha
“as a wife”
- Transliteration
- le-i-SHA
- Extended
- leh-ih-SHAA
- IPA
- /ləʔiʃˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- as a wife
- French
- pour femme
- Spanish
- por mujer
- Portuguese
- por esposa
- German
- zur Frau
- Russian
- в жёны
- Arabic-Simplified
- زوجة
- Hindi
- पत्नी के रूप में
- Chinese-Simplified
- 为妻
- Korean
- 아내로
- Indonesian
- menjadi istri
- Bengali
- স্ত্রী হিসাবে
- Tagalog
- bilang asawa
- Swahili
- kuwa mke
- Amharic
- እንደ ሚስት
- Yoruba
- gege bi aya
- Igbo
- ka o buru nwunye
- Twi
- sɛ ɔyere
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-i-SHA
- clause
KI ra-a-TA ki-ga-DAL she-LA ve-HI lo-ni-te-NA LO le-i-SHA
- 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 context — Genesis 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 38:14:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of Genesis 38:14, so the Hebrew word לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ (leisha) 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.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.38.14.W21.S1) and character.