Genesis 49:17:4Gen.49.17.W4PAT
שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן
shefifon
“a viper”
- Transliteration
- she-fi-FON
- Extended
- sheh-fee-FOHN
- IPA
- /ʃə.fiːˈfoːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- a viper
- French
- une vipère
- Spanish
- una víbora
- Portuguese
- uma víbora
- German
- eine Viper
- Russian
- гадюка
- Arabic-Simplified
- أفعى
- Hindi
- एक विषधर
- Chinese-Simplified
- 一条蝮蛇
- Korean
- 독사
- Indonesian
- seekor ular beludak
- Bengali
- এক বিষধর সাপ
- Tagalog
- isang ulupong
- Swahili
- nyoka mwenye sumu
- Amharic
- እፉኝት
- Yoruba
- paramọlẹ
- Igbo
- ajụala
- Twi
- ɔwɔ bɔne
- Ewe
- da vevie
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
she-fi-FON
- clause
ye-hi-DAN na-KHASH a-lei-DE-rekh she-fi-FON a-lei-O-rakh
- sentence
ye-hi-DAN na-KHASH a-lei-DE-rekh she-fi-FON a-lei-O-rakh ha-no-SHEKH ik-vei-SUS va-yi-POL rokh-VO a-KHOR
In context — Genesis 49:17
Dan shall be a serpent upon the way a viper upon the path the one that bites heels of a horse and falls his rider backward
About this coordinate
Genesis 49:17:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 49:17, so the Hebrew word שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן (shefifon) 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.49.17.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.49.17.W4.S1) and character.