Judges 18:13:4Judg.18.13.W4TAB
וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ
vayavou
“and they came”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-VO-u
- Extended
- vah-yah-VOH-oo
- IPA
- /vaj.jaˈvoː.ʔuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they came
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 | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ya-VO-u
- clause
va-ya-VO-u ad-BET mi-KHA
- sentence
va-ya-AV-ru mish-SHAM har-e-fra-YIM va-ya-VO-u ad-BET mi-KHA
Exegesis
The second vav-consecutive verb vayyaʾăbōʾu {וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ | wayyā-ḇō-ʾū} ‘and they came’ continues the narration, followed by ad {עַד | ʿad} ‘up to’, marking the boundary at beit Mikha {בֵּית מִיכָה | bêyt Mî-khā} ‘the house of Micah’. In English, the Hebrew verb-subject-object order is rendered as subject-verb-object to preserve narrative clarity, while construct forms convey relational nuance without restructuring.
Root and etymology
b-w-ʾbet–vav–aleph
“to come”
In context — Judges 18:13
And they passed on from there into the hill country of Ephraim, and came as far as the house of Micah.
About this coordinate
Judges 18:13:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Judges 18:13, so the Hebrew word וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ (vayavou) 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.18.13.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.13.W4.S1) and character.