Exodus 18:6:10Exod.18.6.W10TAB

בָנֶ֖יהָ

vahnehyah

her sons

Transliteration
vah-NEH-yah
Extended
vah-NEH-yah
IPA
/vaˈneja/

Meaning by language

English
her sons

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Result
בָ + נֶ֖י + הָ
vah + neh + yah
vahnehyah

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Qametslong 'ah'
Nunn as in new
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'

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Word in context

  1. word

    vah-NEH-yah

  2. phraseyour reading level

    u-she-NEE vah-NEH-yah

  3. clause

    ve-ISH-te-KHAA u-she-NEE vah-NEH-yah im-MAAH

  4. sentence

    va-YO-mer el-mo-SHEH a-NI kho-ten-KHAA yit-ROH BAA e-le-KHAA ve-ISH-te-KHAA u-she-NEE vah-NEH-yah im-MAAH

Exegesis

The coordinated veishtekha {וְאִשְׁתְּךָ | wə-ʾiš-te-kā} ‘and your wife’ and ushnei vaneha {וּשְׁנֵי בָנֶיהָ | ū-šə-nê bā-nê-hā} ‘and her two sons’ proceed without an explicit verb, relying on the participle.

In contextExodus 18:6

And he said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro , am coming to you, and your wife and her two sons are with her.”

About this coordinate

Exodus 18:6:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Exodus 18:6, so the Hebrew word בָנֶ֖יהָ (vahnehyah) 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.18.6.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.6.W10.S1) and character.