2 Chronicles 17:12:42 Chr.17.12.W4TAB
וְגָדֵ֖ל
vegadel
“and growing”
- Transliteration
- ve-ga-DEL
- Extended
- veh-gaa-DEEL
- IPA
- /vəɣaːˈdeːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- and growing
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ga-DEL
- phraseyour reading level
ho-LEKH ve-ga-DEL
- clause
va-ye-HI ye-ho-sha-FAT ho-LEKH ve-ga-DEL ad-le-MA-la
- sentence
va-ye-HI ye-ho-sha-FAT ho-LEKH ve-ga-DEL ad-le-MA-la va-yiv-BEN bi-ye-hu-DA bi-ra-ni-YOT ve-a-RE mis-ke-NOT
Exegesis
The Qal participles holekh {הֹלֵ֥ךְ | hô-lêk} “going” and vegadel {וְגָדֵ֖ל | wə-ḡā-ḏêl} “growing great” form a coordinated ascent, intensified by the prepositional phrase ad-lemalah {עַד־לְמָעְלָה | ʿad-lə-mā-ʿā-lā} “upward.”
Root and etymology
g-d-lgimel–dalet–lamed
“to grow, become great”
In context — 2 Chronicles 17:12
And Jehoshaphat kept increasing, becoming greater and greater, and he built strongholds in Judah and cities for storehouses .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 17:12:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Chronicles 17:12, so the Hebrew word וְגָדֵ֖ל (vegadel) 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.17.12.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.17.12.W4.S1) and character.