1 Samuel 17:34:91 Sam.17.34.W9TAB
וּבָ֤א
uva
“and came”
- Transliteration
- u-VA
- Extended
- oo-VAA
- IPA
- /uːˈvɔː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and came
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-VA
- phraseyour reading level
u-VA ha-a-RI
- clause
u-VA ha-a-RI ve-et-ha-DOV ve-na-SA SEH me-ha-E-der
- sentence
va-yo-MER da-VID el-sha-UL ro-EH ha-YA av-de-KHA le-a-VIV ba-TSON u-VA ha-a-RI ve-et-ha-DOV ve-na-SA SEH me-ha-E-der
Exegesis
The adversarial agents are introduced by ūbā {וּבָ֤א | ū-ḇā} ‘and came’ with the coordinated expression hā-ʾă-rî wə-ʾeṯ-had-dōḇ {הָֽאֲרִי וְאֶת־הַדּ֔וֹב | hā-ʾă-rî wə-ʾeṯ-had-dōḇ} ‘the lion and the bear’.
In context — 1 Samuel 17:34
And David said to Saul, “Your servant was a shepherd for his father among the sheep, when a lion and a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 17:34:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 1 Samuel 17:34, so the Hebrew word וּבָ֤א (uva) 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.17.34.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.17.34.W9.S1) and character.