Genesis 19:30:4Gen.19.30.W4TAB
וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב
vayeshev
“dwelt”
- Transliteration
- va-YE-shev
- Extended
- vah-YEH-shehv
- IPA
- /waj.ˈjeː.ʃɛv/
Meaning by language
- English
- dwelt
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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
va-YE-shev
- phraseyour reading level
va-YE-shev ba-HAR
- clause
va-ya-AL LOT mits-TSO-ar va-YE-shev ba-HAR ush-TEI ve-no-TAV im-MO KI ya-RE la-SHE-vet be-TSO-ar
- sentence
va-ya-AL LOT mits-TSO-ar va-YE-shev ba-HAR ush-TEI ve-no-TAV im-MO KI ya-RE la-SHE-vet be-TSO-ar va-YE-shev bam-me-a-RA HU ush-TEI ve-no-TAV
Exegesis
The narrative unfolds through a chain of wayyiqtol verbs: vayaal {וַיַּעַל | way-yaʿal} ‘and he went up’ marks movement from Zoar (mitsoar {מִצּוֹעַר | mits-sō-ʿar}) to higher ground (bahar {בָּהָר | bā-hār}), followed by vayeshev {וַיֵּשֶׁב | way-yē-šeḇ} ‘and he settled.’
A subsequent vayeshev {וַיֵּשֶׁב | way-yē-šeḇ} ‘and he dwelt’ introduces the result clause bamearah {בַּמְּעָרָה | bam-me-ʿā-rāh} ‘in the cave,’ concluded by the appositional hu ushtey benotav {הוּא וּשְׁתֵּי בְנֹתָיו | hûʾ û-šə-tē bə-nō-ṯāw}, emphasizing the isolated refuge of Lot and his daughters. In English, the verbs appear in simple past to preserve narrative continuity, and the final repetition underscores their shared situation.
Root and etymology
y-sh-byod–shin–bet
“to sit, dwell”
In context — Genesis 19:30
Lot went up from Zoar and settled in the mountain, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar, so he lived in the cave , he and his two daughters.
About this coordinate
Genesis 19:30:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 19:30, so the Hebrew word וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב (vayeshev) 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.19.30.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.19.30.W4.S1) and character.