Genesis 39:20:12Gen.39.20.W12PAT
אֲסוּרִ֑ים
asurim
“were bound”
- Transliteration
- a-su-RIM
- Extended
- ah-soo-REEM
- IPA
- /ʔă.suː.ˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- were bound
- French
- étaient liés
- Spanish
- estaban atados
- Portuguese
- estavam presos
- German
- waren gebunden
- Russian
- были заключены
- Arabic-Simplified
- كَانُوا مَقْيُودِينَ
- Hindi
- बँधे हुए थे
- Chinese-Simplified
- 被囚禁着
- Korean
- 묶여 있었다
- Indonesian
- terkurung
- Bengali
- বাঁধা ছিল
- Tagalog
- ay nakagapos
- Swahili
- walifungwa
- Amharic
- ታስረው ነበሩ
- Yoruba
- wà ní ìdè
- Igbo
- e kechiri
- Twi
- wɔakyekyere wɔn
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-su-RIM
- clause
va-yik-KAKH a-do-NEI yo-SEF o-TO va-yit-te-NE-hu el-BEIT ha-SO-har me-KOM a-SHER-a-su-REI a-si-REI ha-ME-lekh a-su-RIM
- sentence
va-yik-KAKH a-do-NEI yo-SEF o-TO va-yit-te-NE-hu el-BEIT ha-SO-har me-KOM a-SHER-a-su-REI a-si-REI ha-ME-lekh a-su-RIM va-ye-HI-SHAM be-VEIT ha-SO-har
In context — Genesis 39:20
and took master of Joseph him and put him to the house of the prison place where the confined of prisoners of the king were bound and he was there in the house of the prison
About this coordinate
Genesis 39:20:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Genesis 39:20, so the Hebrew word אֲסוּרִ֑ים (asurim) 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.39.20.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.39.20.W12.S1) and character.