Genesis 43:2:4Gen.43.2.W4PAT

לֶאֱכֹ֣ל

leekhol

eating

Transliteration
le-e-KHOL
Extended
leh-eh-KHOHL
IPA
/lɛ.ʔɛ̆.ˈxoːl/

Meaning by language

English
eating
French
de manger
Spanish
de comer
Portuguese
de comer
German
zu essen
Russian
есть
Arabic-Simplified
أن يأكلوا
Hindi
खाना
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
먹는 것을
Indonesian
makan
Bengali
খাওয়া
Tagalog
kumain
Swahili
kula
Amharic
መብላት
Yoruba
jẹun
Igbo
iri
Twi
wodi
Ewe
ɖu

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Result
לֶ + אֱ + כֹ֣ל
le + e + khol
leekhol

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hateph Segholreduced 'eh'
Kafk with dagesh; kh without
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Lamedl as in law

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Word in context

  1. word

    le-e-KHOL

  2. phraseyour reading level

    le-e-KHOL et-ha-SHE-ver

  3. clause

    va-ye-HI ka-a-SHER ki-LU le-e-KHOL et-ha-SHE-ver a-SHER he-VI-u mi-mits-RA-yim

  4. sentence

    va-ye-HI ka-a-SHER ki-LU le-e-KHOL et-ha-SHE-ver a-SHER he-VI-u mi-mits-RA-yim va-YO-mer a-lei-HEM a-vi-HEM shu-VOO shiv-ru-LA-nu me-at-O-khel

In contextGenesis 43:2

And it happened when they had finished eating the grain that they had brought from Egypt {He} said to them their father Return buy for us a little food

About this coordinate

Genesis 43:2:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 43:2, so the Hebrew word לֶאֱכֹ֣ל (leekhol) 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.43.2.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.43.2.W4.S1) and character.