Genesis 38:9:4Gen.38.9.W4PAT
לֹּ֥א
lo
“not”
- Transliteration
- LO
- Extended
- LOH
- IPA
- /ˈloː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not
- French
- pas
- Spanish
- no
- Portuguese
- não
- German
- nicht
- Russian
- не
- Arabic-Simplified
- لَا
- Hindi
- नहीं
- Chinese-Simplified
- 不
- Korean
- 아니
- Indonesian
- tidak
- Bengali
- না
- Tagalog
- hindi
- Swahili
- si
- Amharic
- አይ
- Yoruba
- kì í
- Igbo
- ọ bụghị
- Twi
- nyɛ
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
LO
- phraseyour reading level
LO LO
- clause
va-ye-DA o-NAN KI LO LO yi-he-YE ha-ZA-ra
- sentence
va-ye-DA o-NAN KI LO LO yi-he-YE ha-ZA-ra ve-ha-YA im-BA el-E-shet a-KHIV ve-shi-KHET AR-e-tsa le-vil-TI ne-tan-ZE-ra le-a-KHIV
In context — Genesis 38:9
and he knew Onan that not to him would be the offspring and it happened if he entered to the wife of his brother and he wasted to the ground in order not give offspring to his brother
About this coordinate
Genesis 38:9:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 38:9, so the Hebrew word לֹּ֥א (lo) 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.38.9.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.38.9.W4.S1) and character.