Genesis 38:28:6Gen.38.28.W6TAB

וַתִּקְשֹׁ֨ר

vatikshor

tied

Transliteration
va-tik-SHOR
Extended
vah-tihk-SHOHR
IPA
/wat.tiqˈʃoːr/

Meaning by language

English
tied

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + תִּקְ + שֹׁ֨ר
va + tik + shor
vatikshor

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Tavt as in top
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Qofq — deep k, uvular
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-tik-SHOR

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-tik-SHOR al-ya-DO sha-NI

  3. clause

    va-tik-KAKH ha-me-yal-LE-det va-tik-SHOR al-ya-DO sha-NI le-MOR ZE ya-TSA ri-sho-NA

  4. sentence

    va-ye-HI ve-lid-TAH va-yit-ten-YAD va-tik-KAKH ha-me-yal-LE-det va-tik-SHOR al-ya-DO sha-NI le-MOR ZE ya-TSA ri-sho-NA

Exegesis

A chain of wayyiqtol verbs—vayitten {וַיִּתֶּן־ | way·yit·tēn} ‘and he put forth’, vattiqqach {וַתִּקַּח | wat·tiq·qaḥ} ‘and she took’, and vattiqshor {וַתִּקְשֹׁר | wat·tiq·šōr} ‘and she tied’—drives the narrative forward, a hallmark of Hebrew prose. The noun yad and its pronominal form yado maintain clear reference to the same emerging infant.

In contextGenesis 38:28

As she was giving birth , one put out a hand; the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

About this coordinate

Genesis 38:28:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 38:28, so the Hebrew word וַתִּקְשֹׁ֨ר (vatikshor) 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.38.28.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.38.28.W6.S1) and character.