Leviticus 23:20:1Lev.23.20.W1PAT

וְהֵנִ֣יף

vehenif

wave

Transliteration
ve-he-NIF
Extended
veh-heh-NIF
IPA
/vəheˈnif/

Meaning by language

English
wave
French
agiter
Spanish
agitar
Portuguese
agitar
German
schwenken
Russian
махать
Arabic-Simplified
يُوَلِّحُ
Hindi
हिलाना
Chinese-Simplified
挥动
Korean
흔들다
Indonesian
melambaikan
Bengali
নাড়া
Tagalog
iwagayway
Swahili
kutikisa
Amharic
ማወዛወዝ
Yoruba
Igbo
fegharị
Twi
wosow
Ewe
vuvu

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Result
וְ + הֵ + נִ֣יף
ve + he + nif
vehenif

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Nunn as in new
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Pe Sofitfinal form of Pe — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-he-NIF

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-he-NIF ha-ko-HEN o-TAM

  3. clause

    ve-he-NIF ha-ko-HEN o-TAM AL LE-khem ha-bi-ku-RIM te-nu-FA lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH al-SHNEI ke-va-SIM

  4. sentence

    ve-he-NIF ha-ko-HEN o-TAM AL LE-khem ha-bi-ku-RIM te-nu-FA lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH al-SHNEI ke-va-SIM KO-desh yih-YU la-ye-ho-VAH la-ko-HEN

In contextLeviticus 23:20

the priest wave them upon bread of the firstfruits wave offering before LORD with the two lambs holy be to the LORD for the priest

About this coordinate

Leviticus 23:20:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 23:20, so the Hebrew word וְהֵנִ֣יף (vehenif) 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.23.20.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.23.20.W1.S1) and character.