Exodus 18:5:1Exod.18.5.W1TAB
וַיָּבֹ֞א
vayavo
“{And He} came”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-VO
- Extended
- vah-yah-VOH
- IPA
- /vaj.jaːˈvoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- {And He} came
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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 | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ya-VO
- clause
va-ya-VO yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHEH u-va-NAV ve-ish-TO el-mo-SHEH
- sentence
va-ya-VO yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHEH u-va-NAV ve-ish-TO el-mo-SHEH el-ham-mid-BAR a-sher-HU kho-NEH SHAM HAR ha-e-lo-HIM
Exegesis
The verse opens with the prefixed wayyiqtol form vayyabo {וַיָּבֹא | way-yā-ḇōʾ} ‘and he came’ advancing the narrative.
Root and etymology
b-w-ʾbet–vav–aleph
“to come”
In context — Exodus 18:5
And Jethro , the father-in-law of Moses, came with his sons and his wife to Moses, to the wilderness where he was encamping at the mountain of God .
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:5:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Exodus 18:5, so the Hebrew word וַיָּבֹ֞א (vayavo) 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 Exod.18.5.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.5.W1.S1) and character.