Genesis 42:3:4Gen.42.3.W4PAT

לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר

lishbor

to buy

Transliteration
lish-BOR
Extended
lihsh-BOHR
IPA
/liʃ.ˈboːr/

Meaning by language

English
to buy
French
acheter
Spanish
comprar
Portuguese
comprar
German
kaufen
Russian
купить
Arabic-Simplified
لِلشِّرَاءِ
Hindi
खरीदने
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
사려고
Indonesian
membeli
Bengali
কিনতে
Tagalog
upang bumili
Swahili
kununua
Amharic
ለመግዛት
Yoruba
Igbo
ịzụta
Twi
Ewe
ƒle

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Result
לִשְׁ + בֹּ֥ר
lish + bor
lishbor

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    lish-BOR

  2. phraseyour reading level

    lish-BOR BAR

  3. clause

    lish-BOR BAR mim-mits-RA-yim

  4. sentence

    va-yer-DU a-khei-yo-SEF a-sa-RA lish-BOR BAR mim-mits-RA-yim

In contextGenesis 42:3

went down brothers of Joseph ten to buy grain from Egypt

About this coordinate

Genesis 42:3:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 42:3, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר (lishbor) 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.42.3.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.42.3.W4.S1) and character.