Genesis 45:18:11Gen.45.18.W11PAT

וְאִכְל֖וּ

veikhlu

eat

Transliteration
ve-ikh-LU
Extended
veh-ihkh-LOO
IPA
/və.ʔix.ˈluː/

Meaning by language

English
eat
French
mangez
Spanish
comed
Portuguese
comei
German
esst
Russian
ешьте
Arabic-Simplified
كُلُوا
Hindi
खाओ
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
먹어라
Indonesian
makanlah
Bengali
খাও
Tagalog
kumain
Swahili
kuleni
Amharic
ብሉ
Yoruba
je
Igbo
rienụ
Twi
monni
Ewe
ɖu

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Result
וְ + אִכְ + ל֖וּ
ve + ikh + lu
veikhlu

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Kafk with dagesh; kh without
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Lamedl as in law
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-ikh-LU

  2. clause

    ve-et-te-NA la-KHEM et-TUV E-rets mits-RA-yim ve-ikh-LU et-KHE-lev ha-A-rets

  3. sentence

    u-ke-KHU et-a-vee-KHEM ve-et-ba-tei-KHEM u-VO-u e-LAI ve-et-te-NA la-KHEM et-TUV E-rets mits-RA-yim ve-ikh-LU et-KHE-lev ha-A-rets

In contextGenesis 45:18

take your father and your households come to me I will give to you the best of the land of Egypt eat the fat of the land

About this coordinate

Genesis 45:18:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Genesis 45:18, so the Hebrew word וְאִכְל֖וּ (veikhlu) 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.45.18.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.45.18.W11.S1) and character.