Joshua 15:9:8Josh.15.9.W8TAB
וְיָצָ֖א
veyatsa
“and went out”
- Transliteration
- ve-ya-TSA
- Extended
- veh-yaa-TSA
- IPA
- /vəjaːˈtsa/
Meaning by language
- English
- and went out
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 | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
ve-ya-TSA
- clause
ve-ta-AR hag-GVUL meh-ROSH ha-HAR el-ma-AI-yan MEI nef-TO-akh ve-ya-TSA el-a-REI har-ef-RON
- sentence
ve-ta-AR hag-GVUL meh-ROSH ha-HAR el-ma-AI-yan MEI nef-TO-akh ve-ya-TSA el-a-REI har-ef-RON ve-ta-AR hag-GVUL ba-a-LAH HI kir-YAT ye-a-RIM
Exegesis
The sequence vəyāṣē {וְיָצָא | vǝ-yā-ṣāʼ} ‘and it went out’ introduces a new directional clause with ʾel-ʿārê hār-ʿephrōn {אֶל־עָרֵי הַר־עֶפְרוֹן | ʾel-ʿā-rê hār-ʿe-phrōn} ‘to the cities of Mount Ephron’, preserving the construct for spatial clarity.
Root and etymology
y-ṣ-ʾyod–tsade–aleph
“go forth”
In context — Joshua 15:9
And the boundary turned from the top of the hill to the spring of the waters of Nephthoah, went out to the cities of Mount Ephron, and turned again to Baalah, which is called Kiriath-Jearim .
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:9:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Joshua 15:9, so the Hebrew word וְיָצָ֖א (veyatsa) 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 Josh.15.9.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.9.W8.S1) and character.