Genesis 38:21:12Gen.38.21.W12TAB
בָזֶ֖ה
vazeh
“here”
- Transliteration
- va-ZEH
- Extended
- vah-ZEH
- IPA
- /vaː.ˈzɛ/
Meaning by language
- English
- here
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Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ZEH
- phraseyour reading level
lo-ha-ye-TA va-ZEH
- clause
va-yom-RU lo-ha-ye-TA va-ZEH ke-de-SHA
- sentence
va-yish-AL et-an-SHEI me-ko-MAH le-MOR ai-YEH hak-ke-de-SHA HI va-ei-NA-yim al-had-DA-rekh va-yom-RU lo-ha-ye-TA va-ZEH ke-de-SHA
Exegesis
The reply echoes the narrative sequence with vayomru and a negated perfect lo hayetah bazeh kedeshah {לֹא־הָיְתָ֥ה בָזֶ֖ה קְדֵשָֽׁה | lō hāyṯāh ḇāzeh qədəšāh}, literally “there was not here a sacred prostitute,” where bazeh functions adverbially as ‘here.’ The translation preserves the question-answer structure while clarifying social and spatial contexts.
In context — Genesis 38:21
And he asked the men of her place , “Where is the sacred prostitute who was at Enaim on the road?” And they said, “There has not been any sacred prostitute here.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 38:21:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Genesis 38:21, so the Hebrew word בָזֶ֖ה (vazeh) 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.38.21.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.38.21.W12.S1) and character.