Genesis 4:17:9Gen.4.17.W9PAT
עִ֔יר
eer
“a city”
- Transliteration
- EER
- Extended
- EER
- IPA
- /ˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- a city
- French
- une ville
- Spanish
- una ciudad
- Portuguese
- uma cidade
- German
- eine Stadt
- Russian
- город
- Arabic-Simplified
- مَدِينَةً
- Hindi
- एक नगर
- Chinese-Simplified
- 一座城
- Korean
- 한 도시를
- Indonesian
- sebuah kota
- Bengali
- একটি নগর
- Tagalog
- ng isang lungsod
- Swahili
- mji
- Amharic
- ከተማ
- Yoruba
- ìlú kan
- Igbo
- obodo
- Twi
- kurow bi
- Ewe
- du
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
EER
- phraseyour reading level
BO-ne EER
- clause
va-ye-HI BO-ne EER va-yik-RA SHEM ha-EER ke-SHEM be-NO kha-NOKH
- sentence
va-YE-da KA-yin et-ish-TO va-TA-har va-TE-led et-kha-NOKH va-ye-HI BO-ne EER va-yik-RA SHEM ha-EER ke-SHEM be-NO kha-NOKH
In context — Genesis 4:17
Cain knew his wife she conceived she bore Enoch he was building a city named the name of the city as the name of his son Enoch
About this coordinate
Genesis 4:17:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 4:17, so the Hebrew word עִ֔יר (eer) 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.4.17.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.4.17.W9.S1) and character.