1 Kings 13:22:11 Kgs.13.22.W1TAB
וַתָּ֗שָׁב
vatashav
“and you returned”
- Transliteration
- va-ta-SHAV
- Extended
- vah-tah-SHAAV
- IPA
- /vat.taːˈʃaːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- and you returned
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ta-SHAV
- clause
va-ta-SHAV va-to-KHAL LE-khem va-TE-shet MA-yim ba-ma-KOM a-SHER di-BER e-LE-kha al-to-KHAL LE-khem ve-al-TE-shet MA-yim
- sentence
va-ta-SHAV va-to-KHAL LE-khem va-TE-shet MA-yim ba-ma-KOM a-SHER di-BER e-LE-kha al-to-KHAL LE-khem ve-al-TE-shet MA-yim lo-ta-VO niv-la-TE-kha el-KE-ver a-vo-TE-kha
Exegesis
The verse advances with a rapid chain of wayyiqtol forms, vattashav {וַתָּשָׁב | waṯ-šāḇ} ‘and you returned’, vatokhal {וַתֹּאכַל | waṯ-ʾō-ḵal} ‘and you ate’, and vattesht {וַתֵּשְׁתְּ | waṯ-ṯēšt} ‘and you drank’, portraying step-by-step reversal and participation in what was forbidden.
Root and etymology
š-v-bshin–vav–bet
“to return”
In context — 1 Kings 13:22
But you returned and ate bread and drank water in the place where He spoke to you, “Do not eat bread, and do not drink water.” Your corpse will not come to the grave of your fathers.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 13:22:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 1 Kings 13:22, so the Hebrew word וַתָּ֗שָׁב (vatashav) 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 Kgs.13.22.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.13.22.W1.S1) and character.