Numbers 14:12:4Num.14.12.W4TAB
וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙
veeeseh
“and I will make”
- Transliteration
- ve-e-e-SEH
- Extended
- veh-eh-eh-SEH
- IPA
- /və.ʔɛ.ʕeˈse/
Meaning by language
- English
- and I will make
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-e-e-SEH
- clause
ve-e-e-SEH ot-KHA le-GOI-ga-DOL ve-a-TSUM mi-me-NU
- sentence
a-ke-NU va-DE-ver ve-o-ri-SHE-nu ve-e-e-SEH ot-KHA le-GOI-ga-DOL ve-a-TSUM mi-me-NU
Exegesis
The connective wəʾeʿśêh {וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ | wə-ʾe-ʿa-sêh} ‘and I will make’ introduces a promise, with its direct object ʾōtəkhā {אֹֽתְךָ֔ | ʾō-tə-ḵā} ‘you.’
In context — Numbers 14:12
I will strike them down with a plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:12:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 14:12, so the Hebrew word וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ (veeeseh) 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.14.12.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.12.W4.S1) and character.