Judges 14:3:16Judg.14.3.W16TAB
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
vayomer
“and he said”
- Transliteration
- va-yo-MER
- Extended
- vah-yoh-MEHR
- IPA
- /vaj.joˈmɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he said
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yo-MER
- phraseyour reading level
va-yo-MER shim-SHON el-a-VIV
- clause
va-yo-MER shim-SHON el-a-VIV o-TA kakh-LI ki-hi yash-RA ve-e-NAI
- sentence
va-yo-MER LO a-VIV ve-i-MO ha-EN biv-NOT a-KHE-kha u-ve-KHOL-a-MI i-SHA ki-a-TA ho-LEKH la-KHA-khat i-SHA mi-pe-lish-TIM ha-a-re-LIM va-yo-MER shim-SHON el-a-VIV o-TA kakh-LI ki-hi yash-RA ve-e-NAI
Exegesis
The narrative opens with vayomer {וַיֹּ֨אמֶר | wayyōmer} ‘and he said’, marking each speaker turn.
In context — Judges 14:3
And his father and his mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
About this coordinate
Judges 14:3:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Judges 14:3, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (vayomer) 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.14.3.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.14.3.W16.S1) and character.