1 Samuel 13:6:11 Sam.13.6.W1TAB
וְאִ֨ישׁ
veish
“and a man”
- Transliteration
- ve-ISH
- Extended
- veh-EESH
- IPA
- /vəˈʔiːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and a man
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ISH
- phraseyour reading level
ve-ISH yis-ra-EL ra-U
- clause
ve-ISH yis-ra-EL ra-U KI tsar-LO KI nig-GASH ha-AM
- sentence
ve-ISH yis-ra-EL ra-U KI tsar-LO KI nig-GASH ha-AM va-yit-khav-be-U ha-AM bam-me-a-ROT u-va-kha-va-KHIM u-vas-se-la-IM u-vats-tse-ri-KHIM u-vab-bo-ROT
Exegesis
The narrative opens with ve’ish yisra’el {וְאִ֨ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל | wə-’îš yiś-rā-’ēl}, a collective idiom “men of Israel.”
Root and etymology
א־י־ש
“man”
In context — 1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in distress and that the people were hard pressed, the people hid themselves in the caves and in the thickets, and in the rocks, and in the crevices, and in the pits .
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 13:6:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 1 Samuel 13:6, so the Hebrew word וְאִ֨ישׁ (veish) 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 Sam.13.6.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.13.6.W1.S1) and character.