Numbers 21:9:1Num.21.9.W1TAB

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ

vayaas

and made

Transliteration
va-ya-AS
Extended
vah-ya-AHS
IPA
/vajˈja.ʕasˤ/

Meaning by language

English
and made

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Result
וַ + יַּ֤ + עַשׂ
va + ya + as
vayaas

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-ya-AS

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-ya-AS mo-SHEH

  3. clause

    va-ya-AS mo-SHEH ne-KHASH ne-KHO-shet va-yi-si-ME-hu al-ha-NES

  4. sentence

    va-ya-AS mo-SHEH ne-KHASH ne-KHO-shet va-yi-si-ME-hu al-ha-NES ve-ha-YA im-na-SHAKH ha-na-KHASH et-ISH ve-hi-BIT el-ne-KHASH ha-ne-KHO-shet va-KHAI

Exegesis

The narrative opens with the vav-consecutive imperfect in wayyaʿăś {וַיַּ֤עַשׂ | wayyaʿăś} ‘and he made’, establishing sequential action.

In contextNumbers 21:9

And Moses made a serpent of bronze and set it upon the standard ; and it came to pass, if a serpent bit any man, when he looked at the bronze serpent he lived.

About this coordinate

Numbers 21:9:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 21:9, so the Hebrew word וַיַּ֤עַשׂ (vayaas) 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.21.9.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.21.9.W1.S1) and character.