1 Chronicles 14:12:51 Chr.14.12.W5TAB
וַיִּשָּׂרְפ֖וּ
vayissarfevu
“and they burned”
- Transliteration
- va-yis-SAR-fe-VU
- Extended
- vah-yihs-SAR-feh-VOO
- IPA
- /vaj.jisːaːrˈfuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they burned
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-yis-SAR-fe-VU
- clause
va-yo-MER da-VID va-yis-SAR-fe-VU ba-ESH
- sentence
va-ya-za-VU-SHAM ET-e-lo-HE-hem va-yo-MER da-VID va-yis-SAR-fe-VU ba-ESH
Exegesis
Vayomer {וַיֹּאמֶר | wayyōmer} ‘and he said’ functions as a command introduction, prompting vayisarpfu {וַיִּשָּׂרְפוּ | wayyiśărpū} ‘and they burned’.
In context — 1 Chronicles 14:12
And they abandoned their gods there, and David commanded, and they burned them in the fire .
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 14:12:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 1 Chronicles 14:12, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשָּׂרְפ֖וּ (vayissarfevu) 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 1 Chr.14.12.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.14.12.W5.S1) and character.