Deuteronomy 19:5:22Deut.19.5.W22TAB
וָחָֽי׃
vakhai
“and live”
- Transliteration
- va-KHAI
- Extended
- vah-KHAI
- IPA
- /vaˈxaj/
Meaning by language
- English
- and live
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
va-KHAI
- clause
HU ya-NUS el-a-KHAT he-a-RIM-ha-E-leh va-KHAI
- 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
Exegesis
The apodosis is introduced by hu yanus {ה֗וּא יָנ֛וּס | hû yān·ûs} ‘he shall flee’, followed by el-achat he’arim-ha’eleh {אֶל־אַחַ֥ת הֶעָרִים־הָאֵ֖לֶּה | ’el-’aḥ·aṯ hē·’ā·rîm-hā·’ē·lêh} ‘to one of these cities’, concluding with va-chai {וָחָֽי | wā·ḥā·y} ‘and live’. The verse employs a conditional–result structure with purpose infinitives to frame unintentional manslaughter within the asylum provision.
Root and etymology
ח־י־ה
“to live”
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 19:5:22 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 22 of Deuteronomy 19:5, so the Hebrew word וָחָֽי׃ (vakhai) 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.W22, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.19.5.W22.S1) and character.