Deuteronomy 21:15:13Deut.21.15.W13TAB
וְהָיָ֛ה
vehaya
“and it will be”
- Transliteration
- ve-ha-YA
- Extended
- veh-hah-YAA
- IPA
- /vəhaˈjaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and it will be
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-ha-YA
- clause
ve-ha-YA ha-BEN ha-be-KHOR la-se-ni-AH
- sentence
ki-tih-ye-NA le-ISH shtey na-SHIM ha-a-KHAT a-hu-VAH ve-ha-a-KHAT se-nu-AH ve-yal-DU-lo ba-NIM ha-a-hu-VAH ve-has-se-nu-AH ve-ha-YA ha-BEN ha-be-KHOR la-se-ni-AH
Exegesis
The presentational wə-hāyāh hā-bēn hābhăkôr la-sĕnî’āh {וְהָיָה הַבֵּן הַבְּכוֹר לַשְּׂנִיאָה | wə-hāyāh hā-bēn hābhăkôr la-sĕnî’āh} climactically assigns the firstborn son to the unloved wife, underlining inheritance implications. English structure preserves the conditional protasis and parallelism of Hebrew participial and verbal clauses.
In context — Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man has two wives—one beloved and the other unloved —and both bear him sons, but the firstborn son belongs to the unloved wife,
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 21:15:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Deuteronomy 21:15, so the Hebrew word וְהָיָ֛ה (vehaya) 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.21.15.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.21.15.W13.S1) and character.