Isaiah 18:2:15Isa.18.2.W15TAB
וָהָ֑לְאָה
vahalea
“and onward or beyond”
- Transliteration
- va-ha-le-A
- Extended
- vaa-hah-leh-AA
- IPA
- /vaːhaˈlʔaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and onward or beyond
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
va-ha-le-A
- phraseyour reading level
min-HU va-ha-le-A
- clause
ha-sho-LE-akh ba-YAM tsi-RIM u-vikh-LE-GO-me al-pe-NE-ma-YIM le-KHU mal-a-KHIM ka-LIM el-GOY me-mu-SHAKH u-mo-RAT el-AM no-RA min-HU va-ha-le-A
- sentence
ha-sho-LE-akh ba-YAM tsi-RIM u-vikh-LE-GO-me al-pe-NE-ma-YIM le-KHU mal-a-KHIM ka-LIM el-GOY me-mu-SHAKH u-mo-RAT el-AM no-RA min-HU va-ha-le-A GOY kav-KAV u-me-vu-SA a-SHER-ba-ze-U ne-ha-RIM ar-TSO
In context — Isaiah 18:2
Which sends envoys by sea and in vessels of papyrus upon the surface of the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation drawn out and peeled, to a people awesome from its beginning onwards, a nation measured line by line and trampled, whose land the rivers divide.”
About this coordinate
Isaiah 18:2:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Isaiah 18:2, so the Hebrew word וָהָ֑לְאָה (vahalea) 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 Isa.18.2.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.18.2.W15.S1) and character.