Leviticus 25:19:4Lev.25.19.W4TAB
וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם
vaakhaltem
“and you will eat”
- Transliteration
- va-a-khal-TEM
- Extended
- vah-ah-khal-TEHM
- IPA
- /va.ʔa.χal.ˈtɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and you will eat
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
va-a-khal-TEM
- clause
ve-nat-NAH ha-A-rets pir-YAH va-a-khal-TEM la-SO-va
- sentence
ve-nat-NAH ha-A-rets pir-YAH va-a-khal-TEM la-SO-va vee-shav-TEM la-VE-takh a-lei-HA
Exegesis
The series of vav-consecutive perfect verbs—vaakhaltem {וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם | wa-ʾă-khal-tem} ‘and you will eat’ and viyashavtem {וִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥ם | wi-šaḇ-tem} ‘and you will dwell’—establishes a temporal sequence of promise leading from sustenance to habitation.
In context — Leviticus 25:19
And the land will give her fruit, and you will eat to satisfaction , and you will dwell securely upon her.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 25:19:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 25:19, so the Hebrew word וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם (vaakhaltem) 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 Lev.25.19.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.25.19.W4.S1) and character.