Genesis 47:26:8Gen.47.26.W8PAT

מִצְרַ֛יִם

mitsrayim

Egypt

Transliteration
mits-RA-yim
Extended
mits-RAH-yihm
IPA
/mits.ˈra.jim/

Meaning by language

English
Egypt
French
Égypte
Spanish
Egipto
Portuguese
Egito
German
Ägypten
Russian
Египта
Arabic-Simplified
مِصْرَ
Hindi
मिस्र की
Chinese-Simplified
埃及的
Korean
이집트의
Indonesian
Mesir
Bengali
মিশরের
Tagalog
Egipto
Swahili
Misri
Amharic
ግብፅ
Yoruba
Íjíbítì
Igbo
Ijipt
Twi
Misraim
Ewe
Egipte

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
מִצְ + רַ֛ + יִם
mits + ra + yim
mitsrayim

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Tsadets as in cats
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    mits-RA-yim

  2. phraseyour reading level

    al-ad-MAT mits-RA-yim

  3. clause

    va-YA-sem o-TAH yo-SEF le-KHOK ad-ha-YOM ha-ZEH al-ad-MAT mits-RA-yim le-far-O la-KHO-mesh

  4. sentence

    va-YA-sem o-TAH yo-SEF le-KHOK ad-ha-YOM ha-ZEH al-ad-MAT mits-RA-yim le-far-O la-KHO-mesh RAK ad-MAT ha-ko-ha-NIM le-va-DAM LO ha-ye-TA le-far-O

In contextGenesis 47:26

{And} {he} set it Joseph for a statute until this day concerning the land of Egypt for Pharaoh as the fifth-part only the land of the priests alone did not belong to Pharaoh

About this coordinate

Genesis 47:26:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 47:26, so the Hebrew word מִצְרַ֛יִם (mitsrayim) 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.47.26.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.47.26.W8.S1) and character.