Numbers 25:8:11Num.25.8.W11TAB
וַיִּעָצַר
vayiatzar
“and was stopped”
- Transliteration
- va-yi-a-TZAR
- Extended
- vah-yee-ah-TSAR
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʕaˈtsar/
Meaning by language
- English
- and was stopped
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 | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yi-a-TZAR
- sentence
va-ya-VO a-KHAR ISH-YIS-ra-EL el-ha-KU-ba va-ye-DE-kor et-shne-HEM ET ISH YIS-ra-EL ve-ET-ha-i-SHAH el-ko-va-TAH va-yi-a-TZAR ha-ma-ge-FAH ME-al be-NEI yis-ra-EL
Root and etymology
ayin–tsade–reshayin–tsade–resh
“to restrain, stop”
In context — Numbers 25:8
He entered after the Israelite man into the chamber, and he pierced both of them—the man and the woman—into her belly . Then the plague ceased among the Israelites.
About this coordinate
Numbers 25:8:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Numbers 25:8, so the Hebrew word וַיִּעָצַר (vayiatzar) 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.25.8.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.25.8.W11.S1) and character.