1 Kings 19:9:11 Kgs.19.9.W1TAB
וַיָּבֹא־שָׁ֥ם
vayavosham
“and he came there”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-VO-SHAM
- Extended
- vah-yah-VOH-SHAHM
- IPA
- /vaj.jaˈvoː.ʃaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he came there
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 | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ya-VO-SHAM
- phraseyour reading level
va-ya-VO-SHAM el-ha-me-a-RA
- clause
va-ya-VO-SHAM el-ha-me-a-RA va-ya-LEN SHAM
- sentence
va-ya-VO-SHAM el-ha-me-a-RA va-ya-LEN SHAM ve-hin-NE de-var-ye-ho-VAH e-LAV va-yo-MER LO ma-le-KHA PO e-li-YA-hu
Exegesis
vayavo-sham {וַיָּבֹא-שָׁם | wayyābō-šam} ‘and he came there’ uses the vav-consecutive to continue the narrative and mark motion into a defined location.
Root and etymology
consonantsAleph–Shin
“fire, flame”
In context — 1 Kings 19:9
He went there to a cave and spent the night. Then the word of the LORD came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 19:9:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 1 Kings 19:9, so the Hebrew word וַיָּבֹא־שָׁ֥ם (vayavosham) 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.19.9.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.19.9.W1.S1) and character.