2 Kings 14:29:12 Kgs.14.29.W1TAB
וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב
vayishkav
“and he lay down or slept”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-KAV
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-KAHV
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃˈkav/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he lay down or slept
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-KAV
- phraseyour reading level
va-yish-KAV ya-ra-VE-am
- clause
va-yish-KAV ya-ra-VE-am im-a-VO-tav IM mal-KHE yis-ra-EL
- sentence
va-yish-KAV ya-ra-VE-am im-a-VO-tav IM mal-KHE yis-ra-EL va-yim-LOKH ze-khar-YA ve-NO takh-TAV
Exegesis
The narrative begins with the vav consecutive verb vayishkav {וַיִּשְׁכַּב | wă-yĭš-ḵaḇ} ‘and he lay down’, a standard royal death idiom.
Root and etymology
sh-k-bshin–kaf–bet
“to lie down, to rest, to die”
In context — 2 Kings 14:29
And Jeroboam lay down with his fathers, among the kings of Israel; and his son Zechariah reigned in his place.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 14:29:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 2 Kings 14:29, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב (vayishkav) 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.14.29.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.29.W1.S1) and character.