Numbers 21:2:1Num.21.2.W1TAB
וַיִּדַּ֨ר
vayiddar
“and vowed”
- Transliteration
- va-yid-DAR
- Extended
- vah-yid-DAHR
- IPA
- /vaj.jidˈdaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and vowed
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yid-DAR
- phraseyour reading level
va-yid-DAR yis-ra-EL NE-der
- clause
va-yid-DAR yis-ra-EL NE-der la-ye-ho-VAH va-yo-MAR
- sentence
va-yid-DAR yis-ra-EL NE-der la-ye-ho-VAH va-yo-MAR im-na-TON ti-TEN et-ha-AM ha-ZEH be-ya-DI va-kha-ram-TI et-a-rei-HEM
Exegesis
The narrative opens with the vav-consecutive form vayiddar {וַיִּדַּ֨ר | wayyiddaʾr} ‘and he vowed’, indicating the next action.
In context — Numbers 21:2
And Israel made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will surely give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”
About this coordinate
Numbers 21:2:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 21:2, so the Hebrew word וַיִּדַּ֨ר (vayiddar) 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.21.2.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.21.2.W1.S1) and character.