Ezekiel 16:9:3Ezek.16.9.W3TAB
וָאֶשְׁטֹ֥ף
vaeshtof
“and I washed off”
- Transliteration
- va-esh-TOF
- Extended
- vaa-ehsh-TOHF
- IPA
- /vaː.ʔɛʃˈtˤoːf/
Meaning by language
- English
- and I washed off
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Pe Sofit | final form of Pe — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-esh-TOF
- phraseyour reading level
va-esh-TOF da-ma-YIKH
- clause
va-er-kha-TSEKH ba-ma-YIM va-esh-TOF da-ma-YIKH me-a-la-YIKH
- sentence
va-er-kha-TSEKH ba-ma-YIM va-esh-TOF da-ma-YIKH me-a-la-YIKH va-a-su-KHEKH ba-sha-MEN
Exegesis
The second verb va'eshtof {וָאֶשְׁטֹף | wā-ʾeš-ṭōp̄} ‘I rinsed’ takes the object damayikh {דָּמַיִךְ | dā-ma-yiḵ} ‘your blood’ with mealayikh {מֵעָלָיִךְ | mē-ʿā-lā-yiḵ} ‘from upon you’, intensifying purification.
Root and etymology
Rootshin–ṭet–pe
“to rinse, to wash away”
In context — Ezekiel 16:9
I washed you with water, rinsed your blood from upon you, and anointed you with oil.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:9:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 16:9, so the Hebrew word וָאֶשְׁטֹ֥ף (vaeshtof) 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 Ezek.16.9.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.9.W3.S1) and character.