1 Kings 14:20:81 Kgs.14.20.W8TAB
וַיִּשְׁכַּב֙
vayishkav
“and he lay down”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-KAV
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-KAHV
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃˈkav/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he lay down
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 | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-KAV
- clause
va-yish-KAV im-a-vo-TAV va-yim-LOKH na-DAV be-NO takh-TAV
- sentence
ve-ha-ya-MIM a-SHE-r ma-LAKH ya-ra-ve-AM e-se-RIM u-she-TA-yim sha-NA va-yish-KAV im-a-vo-TAV va-yim-LOKH na-DAV be-NO takh-TAV
Exegesis
The vav-consecutive imperfect vayishkav {וַיִּשְׁכַּב֙ | way-yiš-ḵav} ‘and he lay down’ marks a funerary narrative stage, with the prepositional idiom im-avotav {עִם־אֲבֹתָ֔יו | ʿim-’ă-vo-ˈtav} ‘with his fathers’ indicating death.
Root and etymology
Rootshin–kaph–beth
“to lie down, rest”
In context — 1 Kings 14:20
The days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years; then he lay down with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 14:20:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 1 Kings 14:20, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁכַּב֙ (vayishkav) 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.14.20.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.14.20.W8.S1) and character.