Exodus 18:6:8Exod.18.6.W8TAB
וְאִ֨שְׁתְּךָ֔
veishtekhaa
“and your wife”
- Transliteration
- ve-ISH-te-KHAA
- Extended
- veh-ISH-te-KHAA
- IPA
- /və.ʔiʃ.təˈxa/
Meaning by language
- English
- and your wife
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 | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ISH-te-KHAA
- clause
ve-ISH-te-KHAA u-she-NEE vah-NEH-yah im-MAAH
- 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 context — Exodus 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 18:6:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Exodus 18:6, so the Hebrew word וְאִ֨שְׁתְּךָ֔ (veishtekhaa) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.6.W8.S1) and character.