Numbers 13:17:1Num.13.17.W1TAB
וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח
vayishlakh
“and sent”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-LAKH
- Extended
- vah-yish-LAHKH
- IPA
- /vajjiʃˈlaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and sent
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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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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Word in context
- word
va-yish-LAKH
- phraseyour reading level
va-yish-LAKH o-TAM
- clause
va-yish-LAKH o-TAM mo-SHEH la-TUR ET-E-retz ke-NA-an
- sentence
va-yish-LAKH o-TAM mo-SHEH la-TUR ET-E-retz ke-NA-an va-yo-MER a-le-HEM a-LU ZEH ba-NE-gev va-a-li-TEM ET-ha-HAR
Exegesis
The verse opens with a vav-consecutive narrative verb vayishlakh {וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח | way-yish-lakh} ‘and he sent’, establishing sequence.
Root and etymology
Rootshin-lamed-chet
“to send”
In context — Numbers 13:17
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and he said to them, “Go up here through the Negev and go up into the hill country.”
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:17:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 13:17, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח (vayishlakh) 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 Num.13.17.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.17.W1.S1) and character.