וַתַּעֲמֹ֧ד

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 וַתַּעֲמֹ֧ד

   va-ta-a-MOD

   and it stood or and there arose
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 וַתַּעֲמֹ֧ד מִלְחָמָ֛ה

   va-ta-a-MOD mil-kha-MA

   and it stood or and there arose war
3. clause🔊 וַיְהִי֙ אַחֲרֵי‪כֵ֔ן וַתַּעֲמֹ֧ד מִלְחָמָ֛ה בְּגֶ֖זֶר עִם־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים

   va-ye-HI a-kha-REI-KHEN va-ta-a-MOD mil-kha-MA be-GE-zer im-pe-lish-TIM

   and it happened after thus or after this and it stood or and there arose war in Gezer with the Philistines
4. sentence🔊 וַיְהִי֙ אַחֲרֵי‪כֵ֔ן וַתַּעֲמֹ֧ד מִלְחָמָ֛ה בְּגֶ֖זֶר עִם־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים אָ֣ז הִכָּ֞ה סִבְּכַ֣י הַחֻֽשָׁתִ֗י אֶת־סִפַּ֛י מִילִדֵ֥י הָרְפָאִ֖ים וַיִּכָּנֵֽעוּ׃

   va-ye-HI a-kha-REI-KHEN va-ta-a-MOD mil-kha-MA be-GE-zer im-pe-lish-TIM AZ hi-KA sib-be-KHAI ha-khu-sha-TI et-sip-PAI mi-yi-lid-EI har-fe-a-IM va-yik-ka-NE-u

   and it happened after thus or after this and it stood or and there arose war in Gezer with the Philistines then he struck Sibbecai the Hushathite {direct object marker} Sippai from the born ones of or from the descendants of the Rephaim and they were subdued

Exegesis

The subsequent vav-consecutive imperfect vata’amod {וַתַּעֲמֹ֧ד | wa·ta·ʿă·mō̄ḏ} ‘and stood’ personifies the noun milchamah {מִלְחָמָ֛ה | mîl·ḥā·māh} ‘war’, which is rendered literally in the formal and idiomatically in the dynamic.