Numbers 16:15:1Num.16.15.W1TAB

וַיִּחַר

vayikhar

and it burned {was angry}

Transliteration
va-yi-KHAR
Extended
vah-yi-KHAR
IPA
/vaj.jiˈħaʁ/

Meaning by language

English
and it burned {was angry}

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Result
וַ + יִּ + חַר
va + yi + khar
vayikhar

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-yi-KHAR

  2. sentence

    va-yi-KHAR le-mo-SHEH me-OD

Exegesis

The verse begins with the vav-consecutive verb vayichar {וַיִּ֤חַר | va-yî-ḥar} “and it burned,” an idiom for intense anger attributed to Moses (leMosheh {לְמֹשֶׁה֙} “to Moses”).

In contextNumbers 16:15

And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD , “Do not turn toward their offering . I have not taken even one donkey from them, nor have I wronged any of them.”

About this coordinate

Numbers 16:15:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 16:15, so the Hebrew word וַיִּחַר (vayikhar) 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.16.15.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.15.W1.S1) and character.