2 Samuel 19:41:132 Sam.19.41.W13TABWLC 2 Samuel 19:42
וַיַּעֲבִ֖רוּ
vayaaviru
“and they brought across”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-a-VI-ru
- Extended
- vah-yah-ah-VEE-roo
- IPA
- /vaj.jaʕăviˈruː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they brought across
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-ya-a-VI-ru
- clause
va-yo-ME-ru el-ha-ME-lekh mad-DU-a ge-na-VU-kha a-KHE-nu ISH ye-hu-DA va-ya-a-VI-ru et-ha-ME-lekh ve-et-BE-to et-ha-yar-DEN ve-khol-an-SHE da-VID im-MO
- sentence
ve-hin-NE KOL-Ish yis-ra-EL ba-IM el-ha-ME-lekh va-yo-ME-ru el-ha-ME-lekh mad-DU-a ge-na-VU-kha a-KHE-nu ISH ye-hu-DA va-ya-a-VI-ru et-ha-ME-lekh ve-et-BE-to et-ha-yar-DEN ve-khol-an-SHE da-VID im-MO
Exegesis
The hifʿil imperfect vayyaaviru {וַיַּעֲבִרוּ | vay-ya-ʿa-bî-rû} ‘and they brought across’ with successive direct object markers et-hamelekh {אֶת־הַמֶּלֶךְ | ʾet-hā-me-leḵ} ‘the king’, ve-et-beito {וְאֶת־בֵּיתוֹ | wə-ʾet-bey-tô} ‘his household’, et-hayarden {אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּן | ʾet-hā-yar-ḏēn} ‘the Jordan’, and ve-kol-anshei david immo {וְכָל־אַנְשֵׁי דָוִד עִמּוֹ | wə-kol-an-šê dā-wîḏ ʿim-mô} ‘and all the men of David with him’ forms a paratactic list of the parties being transferred, underscoring the comprehensive relocation.
Root and etymology
consonants‘-b-r
“to cross over, pass”
In context — 2 Samuel 19:41
And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to him, “Why have our brothers, the men of Judah, stolen you away and brought the king, his household, and all of David’s men across the Jordan with him?”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 19:41:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of 2 Samuel 19:41, so the Hebrew word וַיַּעֲבִ֖רוּ (vayaaviru) 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 Sam.19.41.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.19.41.W13.S1) and character.