Ezekiel 19:5:1Ezek.19.5.W1TAB
וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙
vatere
“and she saw”
- Transliteration
- va-TE-RE
- Extended
- vah-TEE-REH
- IPA
- /vatːeːˈrɛʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and she saw
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
va-TE-RE
- clause
va-TE-RE KI no-kha-LA av-de-DA tik-va-TA
- sentence
va-TE-RE KI no-kha-LA av-de-DA tik-va-TA va-tik-KAKH e-KHAD mi-gu-RE-ha ke-FIR sa-MA-te-HU
Exegesis
The verse begins with the waw-consecutive verb vatere {וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ | waṯtēreʾ} ‘and she saw’, which introduces the narrative action, followed by the conjunction ki {כִּ֣י | kî} ‘that’, marking a causal clause.
In context — Ezekiel 19:5
When she saw that she had waited in vain and her hope had perished, she took one of her cubs and made him a young lion .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 19:5:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Ezekiel 19:5, so the Hebrew word וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ (vatere) 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.19.5.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.19.5.W1.S1) and character.