Genesis 47:2:3Gen.47.2.W3PAT

לָקַ֖ח

lakakh

He took

Transliteration
la-KAKH
Extended
lah-KAKH
IPA
/laːˈqaħ/

Meaning by language

English
He took
French
Il prit
Spanish
tomó
Portuguese
tomou
German
er nahm
Russian
он взял
Arabic-Simplified
أَخَذَ
Hindi
उसने लिया
Chinese-Simplified
他取了
Korean
그가 취했다
Indonesian
ia mengambil
Bengali
সে নিল
Tagalog
kumuha siya
Swahili
alichukua
Amharic
ወሰደ
Yoruba
ó mú
Igbo
o weere
Twi
ɔfaa
Ewe
eɖe

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Result
לָ + קַ֖ח
la + kakh
lakakh

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Qametslong 'ah'
Qofq — deep k, uvular
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch

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Word in context

  1. word

    la-KAKH

  2. clause

    u-mik-TSEH e-KHAV la-KAKH kha-mi-SHA a-na-SHIM

  3. sentence

    u-mik-TSEH e-KHAV la-KAKH kha-mi-SHA a-na-SHIM va-yat-tsi-GEM lif-NEI far-OH

In contextGenesis 47:2

and from among his brothers He took five men and he presented them before Pharaoh

About this coordinate

Genesis 47:2:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 47:2, so the Hebrew word לָקַ֖ח (lakakh) 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.47.2.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.47.2.W3.S1) and character.