Exodus 21:4:12Exod.21.4.W12TAB
וְה֣וּא
vehhu
“and he”
- Transliteration
- veh-HU
- Extended
- veh-HOO
- IPA
- /vəˈhuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he
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 | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-HU
- phraseyour reading level
veh-HU ye-TSE ve-ga-PO
- clause
ha-i-SHAH vi-lah-DEH-hah ti-he-YEH la-a-do-NEH-hah veh-HU ye-TSE ve-ga-PO
- sentence
IM-a-do-NAIV yi-TEN-lo i-SHAH veh-yal-DAH-loh ba-NIM O ba-NOT ha-i-SHAH vi-lah-DEH-hah ti-he-YEH la-a-do-NEH-hah veh-HU ye-TSE ve-ga-PO
Exegesis
The final clause, ve-hu yetse be-gapo {וְהוּא יֵצֵא בְגַפּוֹ | wə-hū yē-ṣēʾ bə-ga-pō} ‘and he shall go out by himself’, contrasts the servant’s departure with his family’s continued servitude using an independent pronoun and an idiomatic prepositional phrase.
In context — Exodus 21:4
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself .
About this coordinate
Exodus 21:4:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Exodus 21:4, so the Hebrew word וְה֣וּא (vehhu) 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.21.4.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.21.4.W12.S1) and character.