Leviticus 18:5:1Lev.18.5.W1PAT
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם
ushehmartem
“keep”
- Transliteration
- u-sheh-MAR-TEM
- Extended
- oo-sheh-MAHR-TEHM
- IPA
- /uʃmarˈtɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- keep
- French
- garder
- Spanish
- guardar
- Portuguese
- guardar
- German
- bewahren
- Russian
- соблюдать
- Arabic-Simplified
- يحفظ
- Hindi
- पालन करना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 遵守
- Korean
- 지키다
- Indonesian
- menaati
- Bengali
- মান্য করা
- Tagalog
- ingatan
- Swahili
- kutii
- Amharic
- ማክበር
- Yoruba
- pa mọ́
- Igbo
- idebe
- Twi
- di so
- Ewe
- kplɔ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-sheh-MAR-TEM
- phraseyour reading level
u-sheh-MAR-TEM eht-KHUK-koh-TAI
- clause
u-sheh-MAR-TEM eht-KHUK-koh-TAI veh-eht-mish-pa-TAI a-SHER ya-a-SEH o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-CHAI ba-HEM
- sentence
u-sheh-MAR-TEM eht-KHUK-koh-TAI veh-eht-mish-pa-TAI a-SHER ya-a-SEH o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-CHAI ba-HEM a-NEE Ye-ho-VAH
In context — Leviticus 18:5
keep my statutes my ordinances which the person do them live by them I LORD
About this coordinate
Leviticus 18:5:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 18:5, so the Hebrew word וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם (ushehmartem) 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.18.5.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.18.5.W1.S1) and character.