Numbers 24:21:1Num.24.21.W1TAB
וַיַּרְא֙
vayar
“and he looked”
- Transliteration
- va-yar
- Extended
- vah-YAHR
- IPA
- /vajˈjar/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he looked
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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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yar
- clause
va-yar et-ha-KEI-ni va-yi-SA me-sha-LO va-yo-MAR
- sentence
va-yar et-ha-KEI-ni va-yi-SA me-sha-LO va-yo-MAR ei-TAN mo-sha-VE-kha ve-SIM ba-SE-la ki-NE-kha
Exegesis
The narrative unfolds through vav-consecutive verbs—vayar {וַיַּרְא֙ | wayyār} ‘and he saw’, vayisa {וַיִּשָּׂ֥א | wayyissāʾ} ‘and he lifted up’, and vayomer {וַיֹּאמַ֑ר | wayyōmer} ‘and he said’—establishing a sequential oracle.
In context — Numbers 24:21
And he saw the Kenite, and he lifted up his proverb and said, “Secure is your dwelling, and you set your nest in the rock .”
About this coordinate
Numbers 24:21:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 24:21, so the Hebrew word וַיַּרְא֙ (vayar) 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.24.21.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.24.21.W1.S1) and character.