Judges 18:15:8Judg.18.15.W8TAB
וַיִּשְׁאֲלוּ־ל֖וֹ
vayishelulo
“and they asked him”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-e-LU-lo
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-eh-LOO-loh
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃ.ʔăˈluː.loː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they asked him
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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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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Word in context
- word
va-yish-e-LU-lo
- clause
va-yish-e-LU-lo le-sha-LOM
- sentence
va-ya-SU-ru SHAM-ma va-ya-VO-u el-BET-ha-NA-ar ha-le-VI BET mi-KHA va-yish-e-LU-lo le-sha-LOM
Exegesis
The narrative employs vav consecutive verbs (vayasuru {וַיָּס֣וּרוּ | wayyāsûrû} ‘and they turned aside’; vayāḇō’û {וַיָּבֹ֛אוּ | wayyāḇō’û} ‘and they came’; wayyiš’əlû {וַיִּשְׁאֲלוּ־ | wayyiš’əlû} ‘and they asked’) to advance sequential actions.
The idiom wayyiš’əlû {וַיִּשְׁאֲלוּ־ | wayyiš’əlû} ‘and they asked’ with lô {ל֖וֹ | lô} ‘to him’ + lĕšālôm {לְשָׁלֽוֹם | lĕšālôm} ‘for peace’ functions as a formulaic inquiry about welfare.
In context — Judges 18:15
So they turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite , at the house of Micah, and they asked him about his well-being .
About this coordinate
Judges 18:15:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Judges 18:15, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁאֲלוּ־ל֖וֹ (vayishelulo) 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.18.15.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.15.W8.S1) and character.