1 Samuel 14:32:111 Sam.14.32.W11TAB
וַיִּשְׁחֲטוּ־אָ֑רְצָה
vayishkhatuartse
“and they slaughtered to the ground”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-kha-TU-AR-tse
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-khah-TOO-AAR-tseh
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃ.ħăˈṭuː.ʔaːrˈtsɔː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they slaughtered to the ground
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 | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-kha-TU-AR-tse
- clause
va-ya-AS va-ya-AT ha-AM el-she-LAL ha-sha-LAL va-yik-KHU TSON u-va-KAR u-ve-NE va-KAR va-yish-kha-TU-AR-tse
- sentence
va-ya-AS va-ya-AT ha-AM el-she-LAL ha-sha-LAL va-yik-KHU TSON u-va-KAR u-ve-NE va-KAR va-yish-kha-TU-AR-tse va-yo-KHAL ha-AM al-ha-DAM
Exegesis
The verse is composed as a rapid chain of vav-consecutive verbs—vayyaʿaṭ {וַיַּעַט | wayyaʿaṭ} ‘and rushed’, wayyiqḥū {וַיִּקְחוּ | wayyiqḥū} ‘and they took’, wayyišḥəṭū-ʾāreṣāh {וַיִּשְׁחֲטוּ־אָרְצָה | wayyišḥəṭū-ʾā-reṣ-āh} ‘and they slaughtered’, wayyōʾaḥal {וַיֹּאכַל | wayyōʾaḥal} ‘and he ate’—which drives the narrative forward without conjunctions.
Root and etymology
ש־ח־ט
“to slaughter”
In context — 1 Samuel 14:32
And the people rushed to the spoil , took flocks, herds, and calves, slaughtered them on the open ground , and ate the meat along with the blood.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 14:32:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 1 Samuel 14:32, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁחֲטוּ־אָ֑רְצָה (vayishkhatuartse) 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.14.32.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.14.32.W11.S1) and character.