Leviticus 11:17:2Lev.11.17.W2PAT
וְאֶת־הַשָּׁלָ֖ךְ
veethashalakh
“and the cormorant”
- Transliteration
- ve-ET-ha-sha-LAKH
- Extended
- veh-EET-hah-sha-LAAKH
- IPA
- /vəˈʔet.haʃˈʃaːlaχ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and the cormorant
- French
- et le cormoran
- Spanish
- y el cormorán
- Portuguese
- e o cormorão
- German
- und der Kormoran
- Russian
- и баклан
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَالْغَاق
- Hindi
- और जलकौआ
- Chinese-Simplified
- 和鸬鹚
- Korean
- 그리고 가마우지
- Indonesian
- dan kormoran
- Bengali
- এবং জলকাক
- Tagalog
- at kormorán
- Swahili
- na koromorani
- Amharic
- እና ኮርሞራንት
- Yoruba
- àti kómọ̀ràn
- Igbo
- na kọrmorant
- Twi
- na kɔmɔrant
- Ewe
- kple kɔmɔrant
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
וְ + אֶת + הַ + שָּׁ + לָ֖ךְ
↓
ve + et + ha + sha + lakh
↓
veethashalakh
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| 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' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ET-ha-sha-LAKH
- phraseyour reading level
ve-ET-ha-KOS ve-ET-ha-sha-LAKH
- sentence
ve-ET-ha-KOS ve-ET-ha-sha-LAKH ve-ET-ha-yan-SHUF
In context — Leviticus 11:17
and the little owl and the cormorant and the short-eared owl
About this coordinate
Leviticus 11:17:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Leviticus 11:17, so the Hebrew word וְאֶת־הַשָּׁלָ֖ךְ (veethashalakh) 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 Lev.11.17.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.11.17.W2.S1) and character.