Judges 20:21:1Judg.20.21.W1TAB
וַיֵּצְא֥וּ
vayetsu
“and they went out”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-TSU
- Extended
- vah-yeh-TSEH-oo
- IPA
- /vaj.jeːˈtsuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they went out
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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| 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-ye-TSU
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-TSU be-NEI-vin-ya-MIN
- clause
va-ye-TSU be-NEI-vin-ya-MIN min-ha-giv-A
- sentence
va-ye-TSU be-NEI-vin-ya-MIN min-ha-giv-A va-yash-KHI-tu ve-yis-ra-EL ba-YOM ha-HU she-NAI-im ve-es-RIM E-lef ISH AR-tsa
Exegesis
The narrative uses vav consecutive forms such as vayyetze’u {וַיֵּצְאוּ | wayyəṣû} ‘and they went out’ and vayyashchitu {וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ | wayyašḥîṯû} ‘and they struck down’ to sequence events.
Root and etymology
Rootyod–tsade–aleph
“to go out”
In context — Judges 20:21
And the sons of Benjamin came out from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand men in Israel on that day to the ground .
About this coordinate
Judges 20:21:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Judges 20:21, so the Hebrew word וַיֵּצְא֥וּ (vayetsu) 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.20.21.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.21.W1.S1) and character.