Genesis 47:1:12Gen.47.1.W12PAT

בָּ֖אוּ

bau

have come

Transliteration
BA-u
Extended
BAA-oo
IPA
/ˈbaː.ʔuː/

Meaning by language

English
have come
French
sont venus
Spanish
han venido
Portuguese
vieram
German
sind gekommen
Russian
пришли
Arabic-Simplified
جاءوا
Hindi
आए हैं
Chinese-Simplified
来了
Korean
왔다
Indonesian
telah datang
Bengali
এসেছে
Tagalog
dumating
Swahili
wamekuja
Amharic
መጥተዋል
Yoruba
ti wá
Igbo
abịawo
Twi
aba
Ewe
va

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Result
בָּ֖א + וּ
ba + u
bau

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Qametslong 'ah'
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    BA-u

  2. clause

    va-ya-VO yo-SEF va-ya-GED le-far-O va-YO-mer a-VI ve-a-KHAI ve-tso-NAM u-ve-ka-RAM ve-khol-a-SHER la-HEM BA-u me-E-rets ke-NA-an

  3. sentence

    va-ya-VO yo-SEF va-ya-GED le-far-O va-YO-mer a-VI ve-a-KHAI ve-tso-NAM u-ve-ka-RAM ve-khol-a-SHER la-HEM BA-u me-E-rets ke-NA-an ve-hin-NAM be-E-rets GO-shen

In contextGenesis 47:1

{And} {he} came Joseph told to Pharaoh said my father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that belongs to them have come from the land of Canaan and behold they are in the land of Goshen

About this coordinate

Genesis 47:1:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Genesis 47:1, so the Hebrew word בָּ֖אוּ (bau) 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.47.1.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.47.1.W12.S1) and character.