Joshua 22:32:1Josh.22.32.W1TAB
וַיָּ֣שָׁב
vayashav
“and returned”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-SHAV
- Extended
- vah-yaa-SHAV
- IPA
- /vaj.jaˈʃav/
Meaning by language
- English
- and returned
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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 | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
va-ya-SHAV
- phraseyour reading level
va-ya-SHAV pin-KHAS ben-el-a-ZAR ha-ko-HEN ve-han-ne-si-IM
- clause
va-ya-SHAV pin-KHAS ben-el-a-ZAR ha-ko-HEN ve-han-ne-si-IM me-ET be-NEI-re-u-VEN u-me-ET be-NEI-GAD me-E-retz ha-gil-AD el-E-retz ke-na-AN el-be-NEI yis-ra-EL
- sentence
va-ya-SHAV pin-KHAS ben-el-a-ZAR ha-ko-HEN ve-han-ne-si-IM me-ET be-NEI-re-u-VEN u-me-ET be-NEI-GAD me-E-retz ha-gil-AD el-E-retz ke-na-AN el-be-NEI yis-ra-EL va-ya-shi-VOO o-TAM da-VAR
Exegesis
The verse links two vav-consecutive clauses with vayashav {וַיָּשָׁב | way-yā-šāḇ} ‘and he returned’ and vayashivu {וַיָּשִׁיבוּ | way-yā-šî-ḇū} ‘and they brought back,’ creating a narrative flow from movement to communication.
In context — Joshua 22:32
Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest and the leaders returned from the descendants of Reuben and Gad in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the Israelites, and they carried back a report .
About this coordinate
Joshua 22:32:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Joshua 22:32, so the Hebrew word וַיָּ֣שָׁב (vayashav) 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.22.32.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.22.32.W1.S1) and character.