1 Kings 13:22:21 Kgs.13.22.W2TAB

וַתֹּ֤אכַל

vatokhal

and you ate

Transliteration
va-to-KHAL
Extended
vah-toh-KHAL
IPA
/vat.toːˈʔaχal/

Meaning by language

English
and you ate

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Result
וַ + תֹּ֤א + כַל
va + to + khal
vatokhal

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Tavt as in top
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Kafk with dagesh; kh without
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Lamedl as in law

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-to-KHAL

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-to-KHAL LE-khem

  3. 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

  4. 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

ʾ-k-laleph–kaph–lamed

to eat, consume

In context1 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 13:22:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 1 Kings 13:22, so the Hebrew word וַתֹּ֤אכַל (vatokhal) 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.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.13.22.W2.S1) and character.