Numbers 16:18:7Num.16.18.W7TAB
וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ
vayasimu
“and laid”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-SI-mu
- Extended
- vah-yah-SEE-moo
- IPA
- /vaj.jaˈsiːmuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and laid
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-ya-SI-mu
- phraseyour reading level
va-yit-NU a-lei-HEM ESH va-ya-SI-mu a-lei-HEM
- sentence
va-yik-KHU ISH makh-ta-TO va-yit-NU a-lei-HEM ESH va-ya-SI-mu a-lei-HEM ke-TO-ret va-ya-AM-du PE-takh O-hel mo-ED u-mo-SHE ve-a-ha-RON
Exegesis
The verse unfolds through four sequential vav-consecutive clauses: vayikchu {וַיִּקְח֞וּ | vai-yiq-ḥu} ‘and they took’, vayitnu {וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ | vai-yit-nû} ‘and they put’, vayasimu {וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ | vai-yā-sî-mû} ‘and they placed’, and vayaamdu {וַֽיַּעַמְד֗וּ | vai-ya-ʿam-dû} ‘and they stood’, highlighting coordinated ritual action.
In context — Numbers 16:18
And each man took his censer and put fire upon it, and placed incense upon it, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron .
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:18:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Numbers 16:18, so the Hebrew word וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ (vayasimu) 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.16.18.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.18.W7.S1) and character.