Judges 19:15:1Judg.19.15.W1TAB
וַיָּסֻ֣רוּ
vayasuru
“and they turned aside”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-SU-ru
- Extended
- vah-yah-SOO-roo
- IPA
- /vaj.jaːˈsuː.ruː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they turned aside
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' | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Qibbuts | short 'oo' as in food | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-ya-SU-ru
- phraseyour reading level
va-ya-SU-ru SHAM
- clause
va-ya-SU-ru SHAM la-VO la-LUN ba-giv-A
- sentence
va-ya-SU-ru SHAM la-VO la-LUN ba-giv-A va-ya-VO va-ye-SHEV bir-khov ha-IR ve-EN ISH me-as-SEF-O-tam ha-BAI-ta la-LUN
Exegesis
The verse opens with the vav-consecutive imperfect verb wayyāsûrû {וַיָּסֻרוּ | way-yā-sû-rû} ‘and they turned aside’, immediately followed by the chained infinitives lāḇōʼ {לָבוֹא | lā-ḇōʼ} ‘to enter’ and lālûn {לָלוּן | lā-lûn} ‘to spend the night’, which express purpose.
In context — Judges 19:15
So they turned aside there to enter and lodge in Gibeah , and he went and sat in the open square of the city, but there was no man to receive them into his house to lodge.
About this coordinate
Judges 19:15:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Judges 19:15, so the Hebrew word וַיָּסֻ֣רוּ (vayasuru) 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.19.15.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.19.15.W1.S1) and character.