Judges 15:1:11Judg.15.1.W11TAB

אָבֹ֥אָה

avoa

let me go in

Transliteration
a-VO-A
Extended
aa-VOH-ah
IPA
/ʔaːˈvoː.ʔaː/

Meaning by language

English
let me go in

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Result
אָ + בֹ֥ + אָה
a + vo + a
avoa

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Qametslong 'ah'
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Qametslong 'ah'
Heh as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-VO-A

  2. phraseyour reading level

    a-VO-A el-ish-TI

  3. clause

    va-ye-HI mi-ya-MIM bi-ME ke-TSIR-khi-TIM va-yif-KOD shim-SHON et-ish-TO big-DI i-ZIM va-yo-MER a-VO-A el-ish-TI he-KHAD-re-HA

  4. sentence

    va-ye-HI mi-ya-MIM bi-ME ke-TSIR-khi-TIM va-yif-KOD shim-SHON et-ish-TO big-DI i-ZIM va-yo-MER a-VO-A el-ish-TI he-KHAD-re-HA ve-LO-na-ta-NO a-vi-HA la-VO

Exegesis

Dialogue is marked by vayomer avoah {וַיֹּאמֶר אָבֹאָה | wayyōmer ʾāwāʾ}, a vav consecutive + cohortative expressing volitional speech.

In contextJudges 15:1

After several days, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson came to see his wife , bringing a young goat. He said, “I will go into my wife’s inner chamber ,” but her father would not let him enter.

About this coordinate

Judges 15:1:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Judges 15:1, so the Hebrew word אָבֹ֥אָה (avoa) 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.15.1.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.1.W11.S1) and character.