Genesis 14:10:6Gen.14.10.W6TAB

וַיָּנֻ֛סוּ

vayanusu

{And They} fled

Transliteration
va-ya-NU-su
Extended
vah-yaa-NU-soo
IPA
/waj.jaː.ˈnu.suː/

Meaning by language

English
{And They} fled

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יָּ + נֻ֛ + סוּ
va + ya + nu + su
vayanusu

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Qametslong 'ah'
Nunn as in new
Qibbutsshort 'oo' as in food
Samekhs as in sit
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-ya-NU-su

  2. clause

    ve-E-mek ha-si-DIM be-e-ROT be-e-ROT khe-MAR va-ya-NU-su me-lekh-se-DOM va-a-mo-RA va-yip-lu-SHA-ma

  3. sentence

    ve-E-mek ha-si-DIM be-e-ROT be-e-ROT khe-MAR va-ya-NU-su me-lekh-se-DOM va-a-mo-RA va-yip-lu-SHA-ma ve-ha-nish-a-REEM HE-ra na-SU

Exegesis

The narrative then uses a sequence of wayyiqtol verbs: vayanusu {וַיָּנֻ֛סוּ | way-yā-nu-sû} ‘and they fled’ applies to the compound subject melekh-sedom vaamorah {מֶֽלֶךְ־סְדֹ֥ם וַעֲמֹרָ֖ה | me-leḵ sə-ḏōm wa-ʿă-mō-rāh} ‘kings of Sodom and Gomorrah.’

In contextGenesis 14:10

Now the valley of Siddim had many pits of bitumen; when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell in there, and the rest fled to the hill country.

About this coordinate

Genesis 14:10:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 14:10, so the Hebrew word וַיָּנֻ֛סוּ (vayanusu) 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.14.10.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.14.10.W6.S1) and character.