1 Samuel 22:1:71 Sam.22.1.W7TAB
וַיִּשְׁמְע֤וּ
vayishmeu
“and they heard”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-me-U
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-meh-OO
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃ.məˈʕuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they heard
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 | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-me-U
- phraseyour reading level
va-yish-me-U e-KHAV
- clause
va-yish-me-U e-KHAV ve-khol-BET a-VIV va-YE-re-du e-LAV SHAM-ma
- sentence
va-YE-lekh da-VID mi-SHAM va-yim-ma-LET el-me-A-rat a-dul-LAM va-yish-me-U e-KHAV ve-khol-BET a-VIV va-YE-re-du e-LAV SHAM-ma
Exegesis
The verse employs a chain of vav-consecutive imperfect verbs: vayelekh {וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ | wayyeleḵ} ‘and he went’, vayimmalet {וַיִּמָּלֵ֖ט | wayyimmaleṭ} ‘and he escaped’, vayishme’u {וַיִּשְׁמְע֤וּ | wayyišmeʾû} ‘and they heard’, and vayyerdu {וַיֵּרְד֥וּ | wayyeŗḏû} ‘and they went down’, which conveys rapid successive action typical of Hebrew narrative.
Root and etymology
shin–mem–ayin
“to hear”
In context — 1 Samuel 22:1
And David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam, and when his brothers and all the household of his father heard, they went down to him there
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 22:1:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Samuel 22:1, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁמְע֤וּ (vayishmeu) 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.22.1.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.22.1.W7.S1) and character.