Genesis 9:18:5Gen.9.18.W5PAT
שֵׁ֖ם
shem
“Shem”
- Transliteration
- SHEM
- Extended
- SHEHM
- IPA
- /ˈʃeːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- Shem
- French
- Sem
- Spanish
- Sem
- Portuguese
- Sem
- German
- Sem
- Russian
- Сим
- Arabic-Simplified
- سام
- Hindi
- शेम
- Chinese-Simplified
- 闪
- Korean
- 셈
- Indonesian
- Sem
- Bengali
- শেম
- Tagalog
- Sem
- Swahili
- Shemu
- Amharic
- ሴም
- Yoruba
- Ṣemu
- Igbo
- Shem
- Twi
- Sem
- Ewe
- Sem
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
SHEM
- clause
va-yih-YU ve-nei-NO-akh ha-yo-tse-IM min-ha-te-VA SHEM ve-KHAM va-YA-fet
- sentence
va-yih-YU ve-nei-NO-akh ha-yo-tse-IM min-ha-te-VA SHEM ve-KHAM va-YA-fet ve-KHAM HU a-VI ke-NA-an
In context — Genesis 9:18
the sons of Noah who came out from the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth and Ham he father of Canaan
About this coordinate
Genesis 9:18:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 9:18, so the Hebrew word שֵׁ֖ם (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.9.18.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.9.18.W5.S1) and character.