2 Chronicles 24:22:102 Chr.24.22.W10TAB
וַֽיַּהֲרֹ֖ג
vayaharog
“and he killed”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-ha-ROG
- Extended
- vah-yah-hah-ROHG
- IPA
- /vaj.jahaˈroːg/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he killed
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Gimel | g as in good |
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Word in context
- word
va-ya-ha-ROG
- clause
ve-LO-za-KHAR yo-ASH ha-ME-lekh ha-KHE-sed a-SHER a-SA ye-ho-ya-DA a-VIV i-MO va-ya-ha-ROG et-be-NO
- sentence
ve-LO-za-KHAR yo-ASH ha-ME-lekh ha-KHE-sed a-SHER a-SA ye-ho-ya-DA a-VIV i-MO va-ya-ha-ROG et-be-NO u-khe-MO-to a-MAR ye-RE ye-ho-VAH ve-yid-ROSH
Exegesis
The vav-consecutive vayharog {וַיַּהֲרֹג | wa-yă-hă-rōg} ‘and he killed’ takes etbeno {אֶת־בְּנֹו | ʾet-be-nō} ‘his son’ as object, specifying the victim.
In context — 2 Chronicles 24:22
But King Joash did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, the father of Zechariah, had done for him, but he killed his son. And as he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and require it.”
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 24:22:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of 2 Chronicles 24:22, so the Hebrew word וַֽיַּהֲרֹ֖ג (vayaharog) 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.24.22.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.24.22.W10.S1) and character.