Judges 18:3:4Judg.18.3.W4TAB
וְהֵ֣מָּה
vehema
“and they”
- Transliteration
- ve-HE-ma
- Extended
- veh-HEE-mah
- IPA
- /vəˈheːm.maː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-HE-ma
- phraseyour reading level
ve-HE-ma hi-KI-ru
- clause
HE-ma IM-BET mi-KHA ve-HE-ma hi-KI-ru ET-KOL ha-NA-ar ha-le-VI
- sentence
HE-ma IM-BET mi-KHA ve-HE-ma hi-KI-ru ET-KOL ha-NA-ar ha-le-VI va-ya-SU-ru SHAM va-yo-ME-ru LO MI-he-vi-A-kha ha-LOM u-MA-a-TA O-se ba-ZE u-ma-LE-kha PO
Exegesis
The conjunction and pronoun wə-hēmmāh {וְהֵמָּה | wə-hēmmāh} ‘and they’ shifts to hikkîrû {הִכִּירוּ | hikkîrû} ‘recognized,’ which takes ’et-qôl {אֶת־קוֹל | ’et-qôl} ‘the voice’ as its direct object and identifies han-nāʿar ha-lewî {הַנַּעַר הַלֵּוִי | han-nāʿar ha-lewî} ‘the young Levite’ as the speaker.
Root and etymology
m-h
“what”
In context — Judges 18:3
They were near the house of Micah, and they recognized the voice of the young Levite ; so they turned aside there and said to him, “Who has brought you here, and what are you doing in this place ? And what is there for you here?”
About this coordinate
Judges 18:3:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Judges 18:3, so the Hebrew word וְהֵ֣מָּה (vehema) 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.18.3.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.3.W4.S1) and character.