Genesis 43:25:7Gen.43.25.W7PAT
שָֽׁמְע֔וּ
shamu
“they heard”
- Transliteration
- sham-U
- Extended
- shahm-OO
- IPA
- /ʃaːm.ˈʕuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- they heard
- French
- ils entendirent
- Spanish
- oyeron
- Portuguese
- ouviram
- German
- sie hörten
- Russian
- они услышали
- Arabic-Simplified
- سَمِعُوا
- Hindi
- उन्होंने सुना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 他们听见了
- Korean
- 그들은 들었다
- Indonesian
- mereka mendengar
- Bengali
- তারা শুনল
- Tagalog
- narinig nila
- Swahili
- walisikia
- Amharic
- እነርሱ ሰሙ
- Yoruba
- wọ́n gbọ́
- Igbo
- ha nụrụ
- Twi
- wɔtee
- Ewe
- wose
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
sham-U
- phraseyour reading level
KI sham-U
- clause
KI sham-U ki-SHAM yo-khe-LU LA-khem
- sentence
va-ya-KHI-nu et-ha-min-KHA ad-BO yo-SEF bat-tsa-ho-RA-yim KI sham-U ki-SHAM yo-khe-LU LA-khem
In context — Genesis 43:25
{And} they prepared the gift until the coming of Joseph at noon for they heard that there they would eat bread
About this coordinate
Genesis 43:25:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Genesis 43:25, so the Hebrew word שָֽׁמְע֔וּ (shamu) 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.43.25.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.43.25.W7.S1) and character.