Jeremiah 16:11:13Jer.16.11.W13TAB
וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ
vayishtakhavu
“and they bowed down”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-ta-kha-VU
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-tah-khah-VOO
- IPA
- /waj.jiʃtaħăˈwuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they bowed down
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-yish-ta-kha-VU
- phraseyour reading level
va-yish-ta-kha-VU la-HEM
- clause
ve-a-MAR-ta a-LE-hem AL a-sher-a-ZE-vu a-vo-te-KHEM o-TI ne-UM-ye-ho-VAH va-YEL-khu a-kha-RE e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM va-ya-AV-dum va-yish-ta-kha-VU la-HEM
- sentence
ve-a-MAR-ta a-LE-hem AL a-sher-a-ZE-vu a-vo-te-KHEM o-TI ne-UM-ye-ho-VAH va-YEL-khu a-kha-RE e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM va-ya-AV-dum va-yish-ta-kha-VU la-HEM ve-o-TI a-ZA-vu ve-et-to-ra-TI LO sha-MA-ru
Exegesis
A series of waw-prefixed wayyiqtol verbs—vayelchu {וַיֵּלְכוּ | wə-ya-le-ḵû} ‘and they went,’ vayaavdum {וַיַּעַבְד֖וּם | wə-ya-ʿa-ḇə-ḏum} ‘and they served them,’ and vayishtachavu {וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ | wə-yiš-ta-ḥă-vû} ‘and they bowed down’—depicts progressive idolatry.
In context — Jeremiah 16:11
And you shall say to them, “Because your fathers have forsaken Me,” declares the LORD , “and have gone after other gods, and have served and bowed down to them; but Me they have forsaken, and My law they have not kept.”
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 16:11:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Jeremiah 16:11, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ (vayishtakhavu) 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 Jer.16.11.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.16.11.W13.S1) and character.