Genesis 6:17:7Gen.6.17.W7PAT
לְשַׁחֵ֣ת
leshakhet
“to destroy”
- Transliteration
- le-sha-KHET
- Extended
- leh-shah-KHET
- IPA
- /lə.ʃa.ˈħeːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- to destroy
- French
- pour détruire
- Spanish
- para destruir
- Portuguese
- para destruir
- German
- um zu vernichten
- Russian
- чтобы истребить
- Arabic-Simplified
- لإهلاك
- Hindi
- नाश करने को
- Chinese-Simplified
- 毁灭
- Korean
- 멸하려고
- Indonesian
- untuk memusnahkan
- Bengali
- ধ্বংস করার জন্য
- Tagalog
- upang lipulin
- Swahili
- kuharibu
- Amharic
- ለማጥፋት
- Yoruba
- láti pa run
- Igbo
- imebi
- Twi
- sɛe
- Ewe
- tsrɔ̃
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-sha-KHET
- phraseyour reading level
le-sha-KHET kol-ba-SAR
- clause
va-a-NI hi-ne-NI me-VI et-ham-ma-BUL MA-yim al-ha-A-rets le-sha-KHET kol-ba-SAR a-sher-BO RU-akh khai-YIM mit-TA-khat ha-sha-MA-yim
- sentence
va-a-NI hi-ne-NI me-VI et-ham-ma-BUL MA-yim al-ha-A-rets le-sha-KHET kol-ba-SAR a-sher-BO RU-akh khai-YIM mit-TA-khat ha-sha-MA-yim KOL a-sher-ba-A-rets yig-VA
In context — Genesis 6:17
and I here I am bringing the flood waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which breath of life from under the heavens everything that is on the earth will die
About this coordinate
Genesis 6:17:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Genesis 6:17, so the Hebrew word לְשַׁחֵ֣ת (leshakhet) 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.6.17.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.6.17.W7.S1) and character.