Joshua 22:13:1Josh.22.13.W1TAB
וַיִּשְׁלְח֨וּ
vayishlekhu
“Then sent”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-le-KHU
- Extended
- vah-yish-leh-KHOO
- IPA
- /vaj.iʃlɛˈħuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- Then sent
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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 | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-le-KHU
- phraseyour reading level
va-yish-le-KHU ve-NEI-YIS-ra-EL
- clause
va-yish-le-KHU ve-NEI-YIS-ra-EL el-be-NEI-re-u-VEN ve-EL-be-NEI-GAD ve-EL-kha-TSI SHE-vet-me-na-SHEH el-E-RETs ha-gil-AD
- sentence
va-yish-le-KHU ve-NEI-YIS-ra-EL el-be-NEI-re-u-VEN ve-EL-be-NEI-GAD ve-EL-kha-TSI SHE-vet-me-na-SHEH el-E-RETs ha-gil-AD et-PIN-khas ben-el-a-ZAR ha-ko-HEN
Exegesis
The verse begins with the vav-consecutive verb vayishlechu {וַיִּשְׁלְח֨וּ | wāyišleḥû} ‘and they sent’, which connects this action to the prior narrative.
Root and etymology
ש־ל־ח
“to send out”
In context — Joshua 22:13
And Israel’s people sent Phinehas , son of Eleazar the priest, to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead.
About this coordinate
Joshua 22:13:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Joshua 22:13, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁלְח֨וּ (vayishlekhu) 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.22.13.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.22.13.W1.S1) and character.