Judges 15:11:1Judg.15.11.W1TAB
וַיֵּרְד֡וּ
vayerdu
“and they went down”
- Transliteration
- va-yer-DU
- Extended
- vah-yeer-DOO
- IPA
- /vaj.jeːrˈduː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they went down
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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-yer-DU
- clause
va-yer-DU she-lo-SHET a-la-FIM ISH mi-ye-hu-DA el-se-IF SE-la e-TAM va-yom-RU le-shim-SHON ha-LO ya-DAT-ta ki-mo-she-LIM BA-nu pe-lish-TIM u-ma-ZOT a-SI-ta LA-nu
- sentence
va-yer-DU she-lo-SHET a-la-FIM ISH mi-ye-hu-DA el-se-IF SE-la e-TAM va-yom-RU le-shim-SHON ha-LO ya-DAT-ta ki-mo-she-LIM BA-nu pe-lish-TIM u-ma-ZOT a-SI-ta LA-nu va-YO-mer la-HEM ka-a-SHER a-SU LI KEN a-SI-ti la-HEM
Exegesis
The verse opens with the narrative marker vayerdu {וַיֵּרְד֡וּ | wayyərdû} ‘and they went down’, establishing sequential action.
In context — Judges 15:11
Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the rock at Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are ruling over us? What is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
About this coordinate
Judges 15:11:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Judges 15:11, so the Hebrew word וַיֵּרְד֡וּ (vayerdu) 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.15.11.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.11.W1.S1) and character.