Numbers 16:33:10Num.16.33.W10TAB
וַיֹּאבְדוּ
vayoevdu
“and they perished”
- Transliteration
- va-yo-ev-DU
- Extended
- vah-yoh-ev-DOO
- IPA
- /vaj.joʔevˈduː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they perished
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 | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-yo-ev-DU
- sentence
va-yer-DU HEM ve-KOL-a-SHER la-HEM kha-YIM she-o-LAH va-te-KHAS a-lei-HEM ha-A-retz va-yo-ev-DU mi-TOHKH ha-ka-HAL
Exegesis
The final verb vayyoevdu {וַיֹּאבְד֖וּ | wayyōʾeḇdû} ‘and they perished,’ combined with mitokh {מִתּ֥וֹךְ | mittôḵ} ‘from the midst of’ and haccahal {הַקָּהָֽל | ha-qāhāl} ‘the assembly,’ conveys total removal from the community, emphasizing cumulative catastrophe and communal exclusion.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph-bet-dalet
“to perish”
In context — Numbers 16:33
And they went down, they and all that belonged to them, alive into Sheol ; and the earth covered them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:33:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Numbers 16:33, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּאבְדוּ (vayoevdu) 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.16.33.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.33.W10.S1) and character.