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

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Result
אֲ + סוּ + רִ֑ים
a + su + rim
asurim

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Samekhs as in sit
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-su-RIM

  2. 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

  3. 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 contextGenesis 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.