Exodus 21:18:1Exod.21.18.W1TAB
וְכִֽי־יְרִיבֻ֣ן
vekheeyereevun
“if quarrel”
- Transliteration
- ve-khee-ye-ree-VUN
- Extended
- veh-khee-yeh-ree-VOON
- IPA
- /wə.xiː.jə.riːˈvun/
Meaning by language
- English
- if quarrel
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 | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qibbuts | short 'oo' as in food | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-khee-ye-ree-VUN
- phraseyour reading level
ve-khee-ye-ree-VUN a-na-SHIM
- clause
ve-khee-ye-ree-VUN a-na-SHIM ve-hik-ka-EESH et-re-E-hu be-E-ven OH ve-eg-ROF
- sentence
ve-khee-ye-ree-VUN a-na-SHIM ve-hik-ka-EESH et-re-E-hu be-E-ven OH ve-eg-ROF ve-LO ya-MUT ve-na-FAL le-mish-KAV
Exegesis
The verse begins with the conditional conjunction veki {וְכִי | wə-ḵî} ‘and if’ introducing a protasis.
Yirivun {יְרִיבֻן | yî-rî-vun} ‘they quarrel’ (qal imperfect) takes anashim {אֲנָשִׁים | ʾă-nā-šîm} ‘men’ as its subject.
Root and etymology
Rootb-n
“son, offspring”
In context — Exodus 21:18
And if men quarrel , and a man strikes his companion with a stone or with a fist, and he does not die but falls to bed .
About this coordinate
Exodus 21:18:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Exodus 21:18, so the Hebrew word וְכִֽי־יְרִיבֻ֣ן (vekheeyereevun) 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.21.18.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.21.18.W1.S1) and character.