וַיֹּ֗אמֶר

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר

   va-yo-MER

   and he said
2. clause🔊 וַיַּ֗עַל וַיַּגֵּד֙ לְאָבִ֣יו וּלְאִמּ֔וֹ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אִשָּׁ֛ה רָאִ֥יתִי בְתִמְנָ֖תָה מִבְּנ֣וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים

   va-YA-al va-yag-GED le-a-VIV u-le-i-MO va-yo-MER i-SHA ra-I-ti be-tim-NA-ta mib-be-NOT pe-lish-TIM

   and he went up and he told to his father and to his mother and he said a woman I saw in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines
3. sentence🔊 וַיַּ֗עַל וַיַּגֵּד֙ לְאָבִ֣יו וּלְאִמּ֔וֹ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אִשָּׁ֛ה רָאִ֥יתִי בְתִמְנָ֖תָה מִבְּנ֣וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וְעַתָּ֕ה קְחוּ־אוֹתָ֥הּ לִּ֖י לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

   va-YA-al va-yag-GED le-a-VIV u-le-i-MO va-yo-MER i-SHA ra-I-ti be-tim-NA-ta mib-be-NOT pe-lish-TIM ve-a-TA ke-KHU-o-TA LI le-i-SHA

   and he went up and he told to his father and to his mother and he said a woman I saw in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines and now take her for me as a wife

Exegesis

The narrative unfolds through a chain of vav-consecutive verbs where vaya‘al {וַיַּעַל | wayyāʿal} ‘and he went up’, vayaged {וַיַּגֵּד | wayyaḡēd} ‘and he told’, and vayomer {וַיֹּאמֶר | wayyōmer} ‘and he said’ propel the action sequentially.