Ruth 3:15:5Ruth.3.15.W5PAT
וְאֶֽחֳזִי־בָ֖הּ
vehehkhohzeebah
“hold it”
- Transliteration
- veh-eh-KHOH-ZEE-bah
- Extended
- veh-eh-KHOH-ZEE-bah
- IPA
- /wə.ʔɛħɔˈziː.baːh/
Meaning by language
- English
- hold it
- French
- tiens-la
- Spanish
- sujétala
- Portuguese
- segura-a
- German
- halte sie
- Russian
- держи её
- Arabic-Simplified
- أمسكيها
- Hindi
- इसे पकड़ो
- Chinese-Simplified
- 抓住它
- Korean
- 잡아라
- Indonesian
- pegang itu
- Bengali
- ধরো
- Tagalog
- hawakan ito
- Swahili
- ishike
- Amharic
- ያዝው
- Yoruba
- dì í
- Igbo
- jide ya
- Twi
- kyere no
- Ewe
- ɖe e
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Qamets | reduced 'oh' | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
veh-eh-KHOH-ZEE-bah
- clause
va-YO-mer ha-VEE ha-mit-PA-khat a-SHER-a-LA-YIKH veh-eh-KHOH-ZEE-bah va-TO-khez BAH
- sentence
va-YO-mer ha-VEE ha-mit-PA-khat a-SHER-a-LA-YIKH veh-eh-KHOH-ZEE-bah va-TO-khez BAH va-YA-mad shehsh-seh-oh-RIM va-YA-shet a-LEH-ha va-ya-VO ha-IR
In context — Ruth 3:15
he said bring the shawl which is on you hold it she held it he measured six measures of barley he put on her he came to the city
About this coordinate
Ruth 3:15:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Ruth 3:15, so the Hebrew word וְאֶֽחֳזִי־בָ֖הּ (vehehkhohzeebah) 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 Ruth.3.15.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Ruth.3.15.W5.S1) and character.