Judges 13:11:1Judg.13.11.W1TAB
וַיָּ֛קָם
vayakam
“and he arose”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-KAM
- Extended
- vah-yah-KAAM
- IPA
- /vaj.jaˈqaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he arose
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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' | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
va-ya-KAM
- clause
va-ya-KAM va-ye-LEKH ma-NO-akh a-kha-RE ish-TO
- sentence
va-ya-KAM va-ye-LEKH ma-NO-akh a-kha-RE ish-TO va-ya-VO el-ha-ISH va-yo-MER LO ha-a-TA ha-ISH a-sher-dib-BAR-ta el-ha-ish-SHA va-yo-MER a-NI
Exegesis
The narrative opens with a chain of vav-consecutive verbs—vayakam {וַיָּ֛קָם | va-ya-qām} ‘and he arose’, vayelekh {וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ | va-ye-lēḵ} ‘and he went’, and vayavo {וַיָּבֹא֙ | va-ya-vō} ‘and he came’—propelling Manoah forward.
In context — Judges 13:11
And Manoah got up and went after his wife, and he came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to the woman?” And he said, “I am.”
About this coordinate
Judges 13:11:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Judges 13:11, so the Hebrew word וַיָּ֛קָם (vayakam) 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 Judg.13.11.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.13.11.W1.S1) and character.