2 Kings 21:3:182 Kgs.21.3.W18TAB
וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙
vayishtakhu
“and they bowed down”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-ta-KHU
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-tah-KHOO
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃ.taˈħuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they bowed down
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 | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-ta-KHU
- clause
va-ya-KEM miz-be-KHOT la-BA-al va-ya-AS a-she-RA ka-a-SHER a-SA akh-AV ME-lekh yis-ra-EL va-yish-ta-KHU le-khol-tse-VA ha-sha-MA-yim va-ya-AVOD o-TAM
- sentence
va-ya-SHAV va-yi-VEN et-ha-ba-MOT a-SHER i-BAD khiz-ki-YA-hu a-VIV va-ya-KEM miz-be-KHOT la-BA-al va-ya-AS a-she-RA ka-a-SHER a-SA akh-AV ME-lekh yis-ra-EL va-yish-ta-KHU le-khol-tse-VA ha-sha-MA-yim va-ya-AVOD o-TAM
Exegesis
The narrative uses a series of vav-consecutive verbs—vayashav {וַיָּשָׁב | wayyā-šāb} ‘and he returned’, vayiven {וַיִּבֶן | wayyī-ḇen} ‘and he built’, vayyaqem {וַיָּקֶם | wayyā-qēm} ‘and he erected’, vayyaʿaś {וַיַּעַשׂ | wayya-ʿaś} ‘and he made’, vayyishtāḥû {וַיִּשְׁתַּחוּ | wayyī-štā-ḥû} ‘and he prostrated’, and vayyaʿăḇōd {וַיַּעֲבֹד | wayya-ʿă-ḇōḏ} ‘and he served’—to link actions in historical sequence.
In context — 2 Kings 21:3
And he returned and built the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, just as King Ahab of Israel had done. And he prostrated himself to all the host of the heavens and served them.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 21:3:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of 2 Kings 21:3, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙ (vayishtakhu) 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.21.3.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.21.3.W18.S1) and character.