Judges 20:41:1Judg.20.41.W1TAB

וְאִ֤ישׁ

veish

and a man of

Transliteration
ve-ISH
Extended
veh-EESH
IPA
/vəˈʔiːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
and a man of

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Result
וְ + אִ֤ישׁ
ve + ish
veish

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-ISH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-ISH yis-ra-EL

  3. clause

    ve-ISH yis-ra-EL ha-FAKH va-yib-ba-HEL ISH bin-ya-MIN

  4. sentence

    ve-ISH yis-ra-EL ha-FAKH va-yib-ba-HEL ISH bin-ya-MIN KI ra-AH ki-na-ga-AH a-LAV ha-ra-AH

Exegesis

The narrative employs a sequence of vav-consecutive verbs, beginning with ve’ish yiśraʼēl hāphaḵ {וְאִ֤ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ הָפַ֔ךְ | və-ʾîš yiśrāʼēl hāphaḵ} ‘and the men of Israel turned’, signaling a sudden reversal.

Root and etymology

Root’sh

man, person

In contextJudges 20:41

And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified , for they saw that the disaster had come upon them.

About this coordinate

Judges 20:41:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Judges 20:41, so the Hebrew word וְאִ֤ישׁ (veish) 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.20.41.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.41.W1.S1) and character.