2 Chronicles 34:2:52 Chr.34.2.W5TAB
וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ
vayelekh
“and he walked”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-LEKH
- Extended
- vah-yeh-LEHkh
- IPA
- /vaj.jeːˈlɛx/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he walked
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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ye-LEKH
- clause
va-ye-LEKH be-dar-KHE da-VID a-VIV ve-LO-SAHR ya-MIN u-se-MOL
- sentence
va-ya-AS ha-ya-SHAR be-e-NE ye-ho-VAH va-ye-LEKH be-dar-KHE da-VID a-VIV ve-LO-SAHR ya-MIN u-se-MOL
Exegesis
The Hebrew narrative employs vav-consecutive verbs (vaya’as {וַיַּעַשׂ | wayyā‘aś} ‘and he did’; vayyelekh {וַיֵּלֶךְ | wayyēleḵ} ‘and he walked’) to sequence actions.
In context — 2 Chronicles 34:2
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD , and he walked in the ways of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 34:2:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 2 Chronicles 34:2, so the Hebrew word וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ (vayelekh) 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.34.2.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.34.2.W5.S1) and character.