2 Kings 19:35:42 Kgs.19.35.W4TAB
וַיֵּצֵ֣א
vayetse
“and he went out”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-TSE
- Extended
- vah-yeh-TSEE
- IPA
- /vaj.jeːˈtseː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he went out
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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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
va-ye-TSE
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-TSE mal-AKH Ye-ho-VAH
- clause
va-ye-HI ba-LAI-la ha-HU va-ye-TSE mal-AKH Ye-ho-VAH va-YAKH be-ma-kha-NE a-SHUR me-A she-mo-NIM va-kha-mi-SHA A-lef
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-LAI-la ha-HU va-ye-TSE mal-AKH Ye-ho-VAH va-YAKH be-ma-kha-NE a-SHUR me-A she-mo-NIM va-kha-mi-SHA A-lef va-yash-ki-MU ba-BO-ker ve-hi-NE khu-LAM pe-ga-RIM me-TIM
Exegesis
The clause vayetze malakh YHWH {וַיֵּצֵא מַלְאָךְ יְהוָה | wă-yē-ṣēʾ malʾākh Yə-hō-wāh} ‘and the angel of the LORD went out’ foregrounds divine agency through verb–subject inversion.
Root and etymology
y-ṣ-’yod–tsade–aleph
“to go out”
In context — 2 Kings 19:35
And it happened that night, the angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp, and when they arose early in the morning, behold, all of them were corpses .
About this coordinate
2 Kings 19:35:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Kings 19:35, so the Hebrew word וַיֵּצֵ֣א (vayetse) 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.19.35.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.35.W4.S1) and character.