1 Kings 20:16:11 Kgs.20.16.W1TAB
וַיֵּצְא֖וּ
vayetseu
“and they went out”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-tsE-U
- Extended
- vah-yeh-tsEE-OO
- IPA
- /vaj.jeːtsˈʔuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they went out
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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ye-tsE-U
- clause
va-ye-tsE-U ba-tso-ha-ra-YIM
- sentence
va-ye-tsE-U ba-tso-ha-ra-YIM u-ven-ha-DAD sho-TE shi-KOR ba-su-KOT HU ve-ham-me-la-KHIM she-lo-SHIM-u-she-NA-YIM ME-lekh o-ZER o-TO
Exegesis
The narrative begins with the vav-consecutive verb vayetse’u {וַיֵּצְא֖וּ | wayyēṣə’û} ‘and they went out’, which sets the action at the temporal adverbial batzahorayim {בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם | baṣāhō·rāyim} ‘noon’—the dual form intensifying focus on midday.
In context — 1 Kings 20:16
And they went out at noon , and Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the tents —he and the thirty-two kings assisting him.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 20:16:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 1 Kings 20:16, so the Hebrew word וַיֵּצְא֖וּ (vayetseu) 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.20.16.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.16.W1.S1) and character.