Jonah 2:3:8Jonah.2.3.W8TABWLC Jonah 2:4
וְגַלֶּ֖יךָ
vegallekha
“and your waves”
- Transliteration
- ve-gal-LE-kha
- Extended
- veh-gahl-LEH-kha
- IPA
- /vəɣalˈleː.xaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and your waves
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Word in context
- word
ve-gal-LE-kha
- phraseyour reading level
ye-sov-VE-ni KAL-mish-ba-RE-kha ve-gal-LE-kha
- sentence
va-tash-li-KHE-ni me-tsu-LA bil-le-VAV ya-MIM ve-na-HAR ye-sov-VE-ni KAL-mish-ba-RE-kha ve-gal-LE-kha a-LAI a-va-RU
Exegesis
The final colon sets up a parallel pair, kol-mishbarekha vegallekha {כָּל־מִשְׁבָּרֶיךָ וְגַּלֶּיךָ | kol-mišbāreḵā wə-gallēḵā} ‘all Your breakers and Your waves’, with “all” fronted for totality and the second-person suffixes marking the sea’s violence as still under God’s command.
Root and etymology
Rootgimel–lamed–lamed
“wave, heap”
In context — Jonah 2:3
And You cast me into the deep , in the heart of the seas; the flood surrounded me, all Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.
About this coordinate
Jonah 2:3:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Jonah 2:3, so the Hebrew word וְגַלֶּ֖יךָ (vegallekha) 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 Jonah.2.3.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Jonah.2.3.W8.S1) and character.