Genesis 13:18:1Gen.13.18.W1TAB
וַיֶּאֱהַ֣ל
vayeehal
“{And he} pitched a tent”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-e-HAL
- Extended
- vah-yeh-eh-HAHL
- IPA
- /vaj.jɛ.ʔɛ̆.ˈhal/
Meaning by language
- English
- {And he} pitched a tent
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
va-ye-e-HAL
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-e-HAL av-RAM
- clause
va-ye-e-HAL av-RAM va-ya-VO va-YE-shev be-e-lo-NE mam-RE a-SHER be-khev-RON
- sentence
va-ye-e-HAL av-RAM va-ya-VO va-YE-shev be-e-lo-NE mam-RE a-SHER be-khev-RON va-yi-ven-SHAM miz-BE-akh la-ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The verse unfolds with four wayyiqtol verbs—vaye'ehal {וַיֶּאֱהַ֣ל | way-ye-ʾĕ-hal} ‘and he pitched’, vayavo {וַיָּבֹא | way-yā-ḇōʾ} ‘and he came’, vayeshev {וַיֵּשֶׁב | way-yē-šeḇ} ‘and he settled’, and vayiven {וַיִּֽבֶן | way-yî-ḇen} ‘and he built’—driving the narrative of Abram’s movement.
Root and etymology
ʾ-h-laleph–heh–lamed
“tent, dwelling”
In context — Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent, came to the oaks of Mamre near Hebron, and settled there; there he built an altar to the LORD .
About this coordinate
Genesis 13:18:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 13:18, so the Hebrew word וַיֶּאֱהַ֣ל (vayeehal) 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 Gen.13.18.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.13.18.W1.S1) and character.