Judges 16:1:7Judg.16.1.W7TAB
וַיָּבֹ֖א
vayavo
“and he went in”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-VO
- Extended
- vah-yah-VOH
- IPA
- /vaj.jaˈvoːʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he went in
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 | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ya-VO
- 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
ב־ו־אb-w-ʼ
“to come, arrive”
In context — Judges 16:1
And Samson went to Gaza . He saw there a prostitute and went in to her.
About this coordinate
Judges 16:1:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Judges 16:1, so the Hebrew word וַיָּבֹ֖א (vayavo) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.16.1.W7.S1) and character.