Genesis 40:17:9Gen.40.17.W9PAT

אֹכֵ֥ל

okhel

was eating

Transliteration
o-KHEL
Extended
oh-KHEHL
IPA
/ʔoː.ˈxeːl/

Meaning by language

English
was eating
French
mangeait
Spanish
comía
Portuguese
comia
German
fraß
Russian
ела
Arabic-Simplified
يَأْكُلُ
Hindi
खा रहा था
Chinese-Simplified
吃着
Korean
먹고 있었다
Indonesian
memakan
Bengali
খাচ্ছিল
Tagalog
kumakain
Swahili
alikuwa akila
Amharic
ይበላል
Yoruba
n jẹ
Igbo
na-eri
Twi
redi
Ewe
le ɖu

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Result
אֹ + כֵ֥ל
o + khel
okhel

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Kafk with dagesh; kh without
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Lamedl as in law

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Word in context

  1. word

    o-KHEL

  2. phraseyour reading level

    o-KHEL o-TAM

  3. clause

    ve-ha-OF o-KHEL o-TAM min-ha-SAL me-AL ro-SHI

  4. sentence

    u-va-SAL ha-el-YON mi-KOL ma-a-KHAL pa-re-OH ma-a-SE o-FE ve-ha-OF o-KHEL o-TAM min-ha-SAL me-AL ro-SHI

In contextGenesis 40:17

and in the basket uppermost all kinds of food for Pharaoh work of a baker and the bird was eating them from the basket on my head

About this coordinate

Genesis 40:17:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 40:17, so the Hebrew word אֹכֵ֥ל (okhel) 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.40.17.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.40.17.W9.S1) and character.