2 Chronicles 16:13:12 Chr.16.13.W1TAB
וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב
vayishkav
“and he lay down or slept”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-KAV
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-KAHV
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃˈkav/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he lay down or slept
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 | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
va-yish-KAV
- phraseyour reading level
va-yish-KAV a-SA
- clause
va-yish-KAV a-SA IM-a-vo-TAIV
- sentence
va-yish-KAV a-SA IM-a-vo-TAIV va-ya-MAT bi-she-NAT ar-ba-IM ve-a-KHAT le-mal-KHO
Exegesis
The verse opens with vayishkav {וַיִּשְׁכַּב | wayyiškab} ‘and he lay’, a conventional death formula introducing Asa {אָסָא | ʾāsā} followed by the construct phrase im-avotav {עִם־אֲבֹתָיו | ʿim-ʼāwōṯāw} ‘with his fathers’. The vav consecutive pair vayishkav…vayamat links burial imagery and death seamlessly.
Root and etymology
Rootshin–kaf–bet
“to lie down, rest”
In context — 2 Chronicles 16:13
And Asa lay with his fathers , and he died in the forty-first year of his reign .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 16:13:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 2 Chronicles 16:13, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב (vayishkav) 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 2 Chr.16.13.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.16.13.W1.S1) and character.