Deuteronomy 19:5:17Deut.19.5.W17TAB
וָמֵ֑ת
vamet
“and he dies”
- Transliteration
- va-MET
- Extended
- vah-MEHT
- IPA
- /vaˈmet/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he dies
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-MET
- clause
va-a-SHER ya-VO ET-re-EH-hu ba-ya-AR lakh-TOV ei-TSIM ve-nid-KHAH ya-DO ba-gar-ZEN likh-ROT ha-ETS ve-na-SHAL ha-bar-ZEL min-ha-ETS u-ma-TSA ET-re-EH-hu va-MET
- sentence
va-a-SHER ya-VO ET-re-EH-hu ba-ya-AR lakh-TOV ei-TSIM ve-nid-KHAH ya-DO ba-gar-ZEN likh-ROT ha-ETS ve-na-SHAL ha-bar-ZEL min-ha-ETS u-ma-TSA ET-re-EH-hu va-MET HU ya-NUS el-a-KHAT he-a-RIM-ha-E-leh va-KHAI
In context — Deuteronomy 19:5
And when a man goes with his neighbor into the forest to chop wood, and his hand swings the axe to fell the tree, and the iron slips off the tree and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live .
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 19:5:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Deuteronomy 19:5, so the Hebrew word וָמֵ֑ת (vamet) 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 Deut.19.5.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.19.5.W17.S1) and character.