1 Chronicles 14:9:31 Chr.14.9.W3TAB
וַֽיִּפְשְׁט֖וּ
vayifshetu
“and made a raid”
- Transliteration
- va-yif-she-TU
- Extended
- vah-yihf-sheh-TOO
- IPA
- /vaj.jif.ʃəˈt̪uː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and made a raid
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 | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yif-she-TU
- clause
va-yif-she-TU be-E-mek re-fa-IM
- sentence
u-fe-lish-TIM ba-U va-yif-she-TU be-E-mek re-fa-IM
Exegesis
The perfect verb baʾû {בָּאוּ | bā-ʾû} conveys completed arrival, followed by the vav-consecutive in vayipšeṭû {וַיִּפְשְׁטוּ | va-yip-še-ṭû}, moving into the imperfect to indicate the subsequent raid.
Root and etymology
p-š-ṭpeh–shin–ṭet
“to spread out, raid”
In context — 1 Chronicles 14:9
And the Philistines came and raided in the Valley of Rephaim .
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 14:9:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Chronicles 14:9, so the Hebrew word וַֽיִּפְשְׁט֖וּ (vayifshetu) 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.14.9.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.14.9.W3.S1) and character.