Genesis 48:6:7Gen.48.6.W7PAT

שֵׁ֧ם

shem

name of

Transliteration
SHEM
Extended
SHEHM
IPA
/ˈʃeːm/

Meaning by language

English
name of
French
nom de
Spanish
nombre de
Portuguese
nome de
German
Namen
Russian
имени
Arabic-Simplified
اسْم
Hindi
नाम
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
이름
Indonesian
nama
Bengali
নাম
Tagalog
pangalan ng
Swahili
jina la
Amharic
ስም
Yoruba
orúkọ ti
Igbo
aha nke
Twi
din
Ewe
ŋkɔ

Alphabet Analysis

Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    SHEM

  2. phraseyour reading level

    AL SHEM a-khei-HEM

  3. clause

    AL SHEM a-khei-HEM yik-ka-re-U be-na-kha-la-TAM

  4. sentence

    u-mo-lad-te-KHA a-sher-ho-LAD-ta a-kha-rei-HEM le-KHA yih-YU AL SHEM a-khei-HEM yik-ka-re-U be-na-kha-la-TAM

In contextGenesis 48:6

and your offspring that you fathered after them to you shall be by the name of their brothers shall be called in their inheritance

About this coordinate

Genesis 48:6:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Genesis 48:6, so the Hebrew word שֵׁ֧ם (shem) 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.48.6.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.48.6.W7.S1) and character.