Genesis 7:11:17Gen.7.11.W17PAT
הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
hashshamayim
“the skies”
- Transliteration
- hash-sha-MA-yim
- Extended
- hah-shah-MAA-yihm
- IPA
- /haʃ.ʃaː.ˈma.jim/
Meaning by language
- English
- the skies
- French
- les cieux
- Spanish
- los cielos
- Portuguese
- os céus
- German
- Himmels
- Russian
- небес
- Arabic-Simplified
- السماوات
- Hindi
- आकाशों के
- Chinese-Simplified
- 诸天的
- Korean
- 하늘의
- Indonesian
- langit
- Bengali
- আকাশমণ্ডলের
- Tagalog
- langit
- Swahili
- mbingu
- Amharic
- የሰማያት
- Yoruba
- ọ̀run
- Igbo
- igwe
- Twi
- ɔsoro
- Ewe
- dzifowo
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
hash-sha-MA-yim
- phraseyour reading level
va-ah-ROO-BOT hash-sha-MA-yim
- clause
ba-YOM hash-ZEH niv-ke-OO kol-ma-ye-NOT te-HOM ra-BA va-ah-ROO-BOT hash-sha-MA-yim nif-ta-KHU
- sentence
bi-she-NAT shesh-me-OT sha-NA le-khai-ye-NO-akh ba-KHO-desh hash-she-NI be-shiv-ah-ah-SAR YOM la-KHO-desh ba-YOM hash-ZEH niv-ke-OO kol-ma-ye-NOT te-HOM ra-BA va-ah-ROO-BOT hash-sha-MA-yim nif-ta-KHU
In context — Genesis 7:11
in the year of six hundred year life of Noah on the seventeenth day of the month in the month the second on the day this all the springs of great deep split open and windows of the skies were opened
About this coordinate
Genesis 7:11:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Genesis 7:11, so the Hebrew word הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם (hashshamayim) 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.7.11.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.7.11.W17.S1) and character.