Genesis 42:23:5Gen.42.23.W5PAT

שֹׁמֵ֖עַ

shomea

understood

Transliteration
sho-ME-a
Extended
shoh-MEH-ah
IPA
/ʃoːˈmeː.aʕ/

Meaning by language

English
understood
French
comprenait
Spanish
entendía
Portuguese
entendia
German
verstand
Russian
понимал
Arabic-Simplified
يَفْهَمُ
Hindi
समझ रहा था
Chinese-Simplified
听得懂
Korean
알아듣고 있었다는
Indonesian
mengerti
Bengali
বুঝতে পারছিল
Tagalog
nakauunawa
Swahili
alikuwa akielewa
Amharic
ይረዳ እንደነበር
Yoruba
gbọ́ye
Igbo
ghọta
Twi
tee aseɛ
Ewe
se gɔme

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Result
שֹׁ + מֵ֖ + עַ
sho + me + a
shomea

Alphabet Analysis

Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Memm as in mother
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father

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Word in context

  1. word

    sho-ME-a

  2. phraseyour reading level

    KI sho-ME-a

  3. clause

    ve-HEM LO ya-de-U KI sho-ME-a yo-SEF

  4. sentence

    ve-HEM LO ya-de-U KI sho-ME-a yo-SEF KI ha-me-LITS bei-no-TAM

In contextGenesis 42:23

and they did not know that understood Joseph for the interpreter was between them

About this coordinate

Genesis 42:23:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 42:23, so the Hebrew word שֹׁמֵ֖עַ (shomea) 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.42.23.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.42.23.W5.S1) and character.