Judges 16:1:4Judg.16.1.W4TAB
וַיַּרְא־שָׁם֙
vayaresham
“and he saw there”
- Transliteration
- va-yar-E-SHAM
- Extended
- vah-yar-EH-SHAAM
- IPA
- /vaj.jarˈʔɛ.ʃaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he saw there
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 | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yar-E-SHAM
- clause
va-yar-E-SHAM i-SHA zo-NA va-ya-VO e-LE-ha
- sentence
va-ye-LEKH shim-SHON a-za-TA va-yar-E-SHAM i-SHA zo-NA va-ya-VO e-LE-ha
Exegesis
The narrative advances through a sequence of vav-consecutive verbs: vayyelek {וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ | wayyə́leḵ} ‘and he went’, vayyar-sham {וַיַּרְא־שָׁם֙ | wayyār-šām} ‘and he saw there’, vayavo {וַיָּבֹא | wayyāḇōʾ} ‘and he entered’.
Root and etymology
Rootshin–mem
“name, reputation”
In context — Judges 16:1
And Samson went to Gaza . He saw there a prostitute and went in to her.
About this coordinate
Judges 16:1:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Judges 16:1, so the Hebrew word וַיַּרְא־שָׁם֙ (vayaresham) 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.16.1.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.16.1.W4.S1) and character.