Ezekiel 20:10:1Ezek.20.10.W1TAB
וָאֽוֹצִיאֵ֖ם
vaotsiem
“and I brought them out”
- Transliteration
- va-o-tsi-EM
- Extended
- vaa-oh-tsih-EM
- IPA
- /vaː.ʔoː.tsiˈʔeːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and I brought them out
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 | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-o-tsi-EM
- clause
va-o-tsi-EM me-E-rets mits-ra-YIM
- sentence
va-o-tsi-EM me-E-rets mits-ra-YIM va-a-vi-EM el-ha-mid-BAR
Exegesis
The verse opens with the conjunction vav {וָ | wā-} ‘and’ prefixed to the Hiphil imperfect verbs otzi’em {אוֹצִיאֵם | ʾō-ṣî-ʾêm} ‘I caused to go out’ and avi’em {אָבִאֵם | ʾā-ḇî-ʾêm} ‘I brought’, both with first person singular subject and third person plural object suffixes.
Root and etymology
RootYod-Tsade-Aleph
“to go out, bring out”
In context — Ezekiel 20:10
And I brought them out from the land of Egypt and I brought them to the wilderness .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:10:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Ezekiel 20:10, so the Hebrew word וָאֽוֹצִיאֵ֖ם (vaotsiem) 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.20.10.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.10.W1.S1) and character.