וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙

   va-ye-LEKH

   and he went
2. clause🔊 וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ בְּלֹ֣א חֶמְדָּ֔ה וַֽיִּקְבְּרֻ֙הוּ֙ בְּעִ֣יר דָּוִ֔יד וְלֹ֖א בְּקִבְר֥וֹת הַמְּלָכִֽים׃

   va-ye-LEKH be-LO khem-DA va-yik-be-RU-hu be-IR da-VID ve-LO be-kiv-ROT ham-me-la-KHIM

   and he went with no or without desire or delight and they buried him in the city of David and not in the graves of the kings
3. sentence🔊 בֶּן־שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וּשְׁתַּ֙יִם֙ הָיָ֣ה בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וּשְׁמוֹנֶ֣ה שָׁנִ֔ים מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלָ֑͏ִם וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ בְּלֹ֣א חֶמְדָּ֔ה וַֽיִּקְבְּרֻ֙הוּ֙ בְּעִ֣יר דָּוִ֔יד וְלֹ֖א בְּקִבְר֥וֹת הַמְּלָכִֽים׃

   ben-she-lo-SHIM u-she-TA-yim ha-YA ve-mal-KHO u-she-mo-NE sha-NIM ma-LAKH bi-ru-sha-LIM va-ye-LEKH be-LO khem-DA va-yik-be-RU-hu be-IR da-VID ve-LO be-kiv-ROT ham-me-la-KHIM

   a son of thirty and two he was when he became king and eight years he reigned in Jerusalem and he went with no or without desire or delight and they buried him in the city of David and not in the graves of the kings

Exegesis

The narrative then advances with the vav-consecutive wayelekh {וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ | wayyēleḵ} ‘and he went’, a conventional euphemism for death; the following phrase belo chemdah {בְּלֹא חֶמְדָּ֔ה | bə-lōʾ ḥemdāh} ‘without desire’ functions adverbially to state the social result of his death: he was not the object of longing or honor.