Judges 15:5:1Judg.15.5.W1TAB
וַיַּבְעֶר־אֵשׁ֙
vayaveresh
“and he kindled fire”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-VER-ESH
- Extended
- vah-yah-VEHR-EHSH
- IPA
- /vaj.jaˈvʕɛr.ˈʔeːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he kindled fire
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ya-VER-ESH
- clause
va-ya-VER-ESH ba-la-pi-DIM va-ye-sha-LAKH be-ka-MOT pe-lish-TIM
- sentence
va-ya-VER-ESH ba-la-pi-DIM va-ye-sha-LAKH be-ka-MOT pe-lish-TIM va-ya-VER mi-ga-DISH ve-AD-ka-MA ve-AD-KE-rem ZA-yit
Exegesis
The first wayyāḇer {וַיַּבְעֵר | wayyāḇer} ‘and he set on fire’ takes ʾēš {אֵשׁ | ʾēš} ‘fire’ as its object, specified by ballappīdīm {בַּלַּפִּידִים | ballappīdīm} ‘in the torches’.
A second wayyāḇer {וַיַּבְעֵר | wayyāḇer} ‘and he set on fire’ then describes the spread from mī-gāddīš {מִגָּדִישׁ | mī-gāddīš} ‘from the shocks’ through wə-ʿad-qāmāh {וְעַד־קָמָה | wə-ʿad-qāmāh} ‘and up to the standing grain’ and wə-ʿad-kerem {וְעַד־כֶּרֶם | wə-ʿad-kerem} ‘and up to the vineyard’. This cumulative structure reflects the unstoppable advance of the flames across distinct agricultural zones.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ
“fire”
In context — Judges 15:5
He lit the torches, then sent them into the Philistines’ standing grain, and he burned both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves .
About this coordinate
Judges 15:5:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Judges 15:5, so the Hebrew word וַיַּבְעֶר־אֵשׁ֙ (vayaveresh) 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.15.5.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.5.W1.S1) and character.