Genesis 41:48:6Gen.41.48.W6PAT

הָיוּ֙

hayu

were

Transliteration
ha-YU
Extended
haa-YOO
IPA
/haː.ˈjuː/

Meaning by language

English
were
French
étaient
Spanish
eran
Portuguese
eram
German
waren
Russian
были
Arabic-Simplified
كَانَتْ
Hindi
थे
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
있었다
Indonesian
ada
Bengali
ছিল
Tagalog
noon
Swahili
ilikuwa
Amharic
ነበሩ
Yoruba
Igbo
dị
Twi
Ewe

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Result
הָ + יוּ֙
ha + yu
hayu

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-YU

  2. phraseyour reading level

    a-SHER ha-YU

  3. clause

    va-yiq-BOTS et-kol-O-khel SHE-va sha-NIM a-SHER ha-YU be-E-rets mits-RA-yim va-yi-ten-O-khel be-a-RIM

  4. sentence

    va-yiq-BOTS et-kol-O-khel SHE-va sha-NIM a-SHER ha-YU be-E-rets mits-RA-yim va-yi-ten-O-khel be-a-RIM O-khel se-de-ha-IR a-SHER se-vi-vo-TE-ha na-TAN be-to-KHAH

In contextGenesis 41:48

he gathered all the food seven years that were in the land of Egypt he put food in the cities food of the field of the city that around it he put within it

About this coordinate

Genesis 41:48:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 41:48, so the Hebrew word הָיוּ֙ (hayu) 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.41.48.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.41.48.W6.S1) and character.