Leviticus 25:38:12Lev.25.38.W12PAT
לִהְי֥וֹת
lihyot
“to be”
- Transliteration
- lih-YOT
- Extended
- lih-YOHT
- IPA
- /lihˈjoːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- to be
- French
- être
- Spanish
- ser
- Portuguese
- ser
- German
- sein
- Russian
- быть
- Arabic-Simplified
- أن يكون
- Hindi
- होना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 成为
- Korean
- 되다
- Indonesian
- menjadi
- Bengali
- হতে
- Tagalog
- maging
- Swahili
- kuwa
- Amharic
- መሆን
- Yoruba
- lati jẹ
- Igbo
- ịbụ
- Twi
- yɛ
- Ewe
- le
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
lih-YOT
- phraseyour reading level
lih-YOT la-KHEM
- clause
la-TET la-KHEM et-E-retz ke-NA-an lih-YOT la-KHEM le-e-lo-HIM
- sentence
a-NEE Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-khem a-SHER-ho-TSE-ti et-KHEM me-E-retz mits-RA-yim la-TET la-KHEM et-E-retz ke-NA-an lih-YOT la-KHEM le-e-lo-HIM
In context — Leviticus 25:38
I LORD your God who brought out you from the land of Egypt to give to you the land Canaan to be to you as God
About this coordinate
Leviticus 25:38:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Leviticus 25:38, so the Hebrew word לִהְי֥וֹת (lihyot) 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.25.38.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.25.38.W12.S1) and character.