1 Kings 20:30:51 Kgs.20.30.W5TAB
וַתִּפֹּל֙
vatipol
“and it fell”
- Transliteration
- va-ti-POL
- Extended
- vah-tih-POHL
- IPA
- /vat.tiˈpoːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- and it fell
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
va-ti-POL
- clause
va-ya-NU-su ha-no-ta-RIM a-fe-KA el-ha-IR va-ti-POL ha-kho-MA al-e-she-RIM ve-shiv-A E-lef ISH ha-no-ta-RIM
- sentence
va-ya-NU-su ha-no-ta-RIM a-fe-KA el-ha-IR va-ti-POL ha-kho-MA al-e-she-RIM ve-shiv-A E-lef ISH ha-no-ta-RIM u-ven-ha-DAD NAS va-ya-BO el-ha-IR KHE-der be-kha-DER
Exegesis
This verse employs a series of vav-consecutive verbs to drive rapid narrative progression: vayanusu {וַיָּנֻסוּ | wayyānûsû} ‘and they fled’, vatipol {וַתִּפֹּל֙ | wattippōl} ‘and it fell’, nas {נָ֔ס | nās} ‘he fled’, and vayavo {וַיָּבֹ֥א | wayyāḇō} ‘and he came’.
In context — 1 Kings 20:30
And the remaining fled to Aphek, to the city. Then the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of those who remained. Ben-Hadad fled into the city and entered an inner room .
About this coordinate
1 Kings 20:30:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 1 Kings 20:30, so the Hebrew word וַתִּפֹּל֙ (vatipol) 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.20.30.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.30.W5.S1) and character.