רָא֔וּ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 רָא֔וּ

   ra-U

   they saw
2. clause🔊 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ אֵ֣ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּבֵיתִי֙ רָא֔וּ לֹא־הָיָ֥ה דָבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־הִרְאִיתִ֖ם בְּאֹצְרֹתָֽי׃

   va-YO-mer khiz-ki-YA-hu ET KAL-a-SHER be-VE-ti ra-U lo-ha-YA da-VAR a-SHER lo-hir-E-tiM be-o-tsro-TAI

   and he said Hezekiah all that in my house they saw there was not a thing that I did not show them in my storehouses
3. sentence🔊 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מָ֥ה רָא֖וּ בְּבֵיתֶ֑ךָ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ אֵ֣ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּבֵיתִי֙ רָא֔וּ לֹא־הָיָ֥ה דָבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־הִרְאִיתִ֖ם בְּאֹצְרֹתָֽי׃

   va-YO-mer MA ra-U be-VE-te-KHA va-YO-mer khiz-ki-YA-hu ET KAL-a-SHER be-VE-ti ra-U lo-ha-YA da-VAR a-SHER lo-hir-E-tiM be-o-tsro-TAI

   and he said what they saw in your house and he said Hezekiah all that in my house they saw there was not a thing that I did not show them in my storehouses

Exegesis

The interrogative pronoun mah {מָה | māh} ‘what’ heads a verbal clause with the perfect verb ra’u {רָאוּ | rāʾû} ‘they saw’ and the locative construct beveitekha {בְּבֵיתֶךָ | bə-ḇê-ṯe-kha} ‘in your house.’

A second vayyomer signals the shift to Hezekiah’s reply, where the construct chain kol ’ăšer beveiti ra’u {כָּל־אֲשֶׁר בְּבֵיטִי רָאוּ | kol ʾăšer bə-ḇê-ṯî rāʾû} ‘all that they saw in my house’ functions as a nominal clause emphasizing totality.