Genesis 39:14:16Gen.39.14.W16PAT
לִשְׁכַּ֣ב
lishekav
“to lie down”
- Transliteration
- li-she-KAV
- Extended
- lih-sheh-KAHV
- IPA
- /li.ʃə.ˈkav/
Meaning by language
- English
- to lie down
- French
- pour coucher
- Spanish
- para acostarse
- Portuguese
- para deitar-se
- German
- um zu liegen
- Russian
- чтобы лечь
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِيَضْطَجِعَ
- Hindi
- लेटने को
- Chinese-Simplified
- 来躺下
- Korean
- 눕기 위해
- Indonesian
- untuk berbaring
- Bengali
- শোবার জন্য
- Tagalog
- upang humiga
- Swahili
- ili kulala
- Amharic
- ሊተኛ
- Yoruba
- láti dùbúlẹ̀
- Igbo
- iji dina
- Twi
- sɛ ɔbɛda
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
li-she-KAV
- phraseyour reading level
li-she-KAV im-MI
- clause
BA ei-LAI li-she-KAV im-MI va-e-ke-RA be-KOL ga-DOL
- sentence
va-ti-ke-RA le-an-SHEI vei-TAH va-to-MER la-HEM lei-MOR re-U hei-VI la-NU ISH i-ve-RI le-tsa-KHEK ba-NU BA ei-LAI li-she-KAV im-MI va-e-ke-RA be-KOL ga-DOL
In context — Genesis 39:14
and she called to the men of her house and she said to them saying see he brought to us a man a Hebrew to mock at us he came to me to lie down with me and I cried out with a voice great
About this coordinate
Genesis 39:14:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Genesis 39:14, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁכַּ֣ב (lishekav) 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.39.14.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.39.14.W16.S1) and character.