Daniel 8:13:1Dan.8.13.W1TAB
וָאֶשְׁמְעָ֥ה
vaheshmehaa
“I heard”
- Transliteration
- vah-esh-meh-AA
- Extended
- vah-ehsh-meh-AA
- IPA
- /wa.ʔɛʃ.məˈʕaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- I heard
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
vah-esh-meh-AA
- phraseyour reading level
vah-esh-meh-AA e-KHAD-ka-DOSH
- clause
vah-esh-meh-AA e-KHAD-ka-DOSH meh-dah-BER
- sentence
vah-esh-meh-AA e-KHAD-ka-DOSH meh-dah-BER vah-yo-MER e-KHAD ka-DOSH lahp-pal-moh-NEE hahm-da-BER ad-ma-TAI he-kha-ZON hat-ta-MID veh-hap-PEH-sha sho-MEM TET veh-KOH-desh veh-tsa-VA mir-MAS
Exegesis
The verse opens with the waw-consecutive imperfect verb va’eshma {וָאֶשְׁמְעָ֥ה | wāʾešməʿāh} ‘and I heard,’ introducing Daniel as the perceiving subject.
Root and etymology
š-m-‘shin–mem–ayin
“to hear, listen”
In context — Daniel 8:13
And I heard one holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one speaking, “Until when will the vision of the continual sacrifice and the transgression causing desolation give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled?”
About this coordinate
Daniel 8:13:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Daniel 8:13, so the Hebrew word וָאֶשְׁמְעָ֥ה (vaheshmehaa) 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 Dan.8.13.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.8.13.W1.S1) and character.