2 Kings 13:25:192 Kgs.13.25.W19TAB
וַיָּ֖שֶׁב
vayashev
“recovered”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-SHEV
- Extended
- vah-yah-SHEHV
- IPA
- /waj.jaːˈʃɛv/
Meaning by language
- English
- recovered
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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 | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
va-ya-SHEV
- clause
sha-LOSH pe-a-MIM hi-KA-hu yo-AASH va-ya-SHEV et-a-RE yis-ra-EL
- sentence
va-ya-SHAV ye-ho-AASH ben-ye-ho-a-KHAZ va-yik-KAKH et-he-a-RIM mi-YAD ben-ha-DAHD ben-kha-za-EL a-SHER lah-KAKH mi-YAD ye-ho-a-KHAZ a-VIV ba-mil-kha-MA sha-LOSH pe-a-MIM hi-KA-hu yo-AASH va-ya-SHEV et-a-RE yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
The verse employs a series of vav-consecutive imperfect verbs to depict sequential military actions, beginning with vayashav {וַיָּשָׁב | wayyāšāḇ} and vayikkach {וַיִּקַּח | wayyiqqaḥ}, which introduce restoration and seizure events.
The final vav-consecutive vayyashev {וַיָּשֶׁב | wayyāšeḇ} reaffirms the restoration theme. English translation preserves verb sequences for narrative flow, reordering only for natural readability while maintaining the original emphasis on military causality.
Root and etymology
shin–vav–betsh–v–b
“to return, restore”
In context — 2 Kings 13:25
And Jehoash restored and took the cities from the hand of Ben-Hadad son of Hazael, which he had taken from the hand of his father Jehoahaz in the war. Three times Joash struck him, and he restored the cities of Israel.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 13:25:19 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 19 of 2 Kings 13:25, so the Hebrew word וַיָּ֖שֶׁב (vayashev) 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 Kgs.13.25.W19, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.13.25.W19.S1) and character.