1 Samuel 20:11:71 Sam.20.11.W7TAB
וַיֵּצְא֥וּ
vayetsu
“and they went out”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-tsu
- Extended
- vah-yeh-TSOO
- 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 | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-ye-tsu
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-tsu she-ne-HEM
- clause
va-ye-tsu she-ne-HEM ha-sa-DE
- sentence
va-yo-MER ye-ho-na-TAN el-da-VID le-KHA ve-ne-TSE ha-sa-DE va-ye-tsu she-ne-HEM ha-sa-DE
Exegesis
In the second clause, the vav-consecutive vayyetzeu {וַיֵּצְאוּ | way-yē-ṣə-ʾū} ‘and they went out’ returns to the narrative voice, with shneihem {שְׁנֵיהֶם | šə-nê-hēm} ‘the two of them’ highlighting the dual subject. English word order adjusts the Hebrew parallelism for natural flow.
Root and etymology
י־צ־אy-ṣ-ʾ
“to go out”
In context — 1 Samuel 20:11
And Jonathan said to David, “Come and let us go out into the field .” So they both went out into the field.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 20:11:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Samuel 20:11, so the Hebrew word וַיֵּצְא֥וּ (vayetsu) 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.20.11.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.20.11.W7.S1) and character.