Judges 20:21:4Judg.20.21.W4TAB

וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ

vayashkhitu

“and they destroyed”

Transliteration: va-yash-KHI-tu
Extended: vah-yahsh-KHIH-too
IPA: /vaj.jaʃˈħiː.tuː/

Meaning by language

English: and they destroyed

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result

וַ + יַּשְׁ + חִ֨י + תוּ

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va + yash + khi + tu

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vayashkhitu

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
	Patach	short 'ah' as in father
	Shin	shin with right dot; sin with left dot
	Sheva	silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
	Chet	ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
	Hireq	'ee' as in machine
	Yod	y as in yes; marks long ī
	Tav	t as in top
	Vav	v as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Vowels (Niqqud)

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The word

Word in context

word
va-yash-KHI-tu
phraseyour reading level
va-yash-KHI-tu ve-yis-ra-EL
clause
va-yash-KHI-tu ve-yis-ra-EL ba-YOM ha-HU she-NAI-im ve-es-RIM E-lef ISH AR-tsa
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.

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 20:21:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Judges 20:21, so the Hebrew word וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ (vayashkhitu) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.21.W4.S1) and character.

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