Numbers 32:39:7Num.32.39.W7TAB
וַיּ֖וֹרֶשׁ
vayoresh
“and dispossessed”
- Transliteration
- va-yo-RESH
- Extended
- vah-yoh-RESH
- IPA
- /vaj.oˈreʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and dispossessed
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 | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yo-RESH
- clause
va-yo-RESH et-ha-e-mo-RI a-SHER-BAH
- sentence
va-ye-LE-khu be-NEI ma-KHIR ben-me-na-SHEH gil-a-DAH va-yil-ke-DU-ha va-yo-RESH et-ha-e-mo-RI a-SHER-BAH
Exegesis
The two verbs vayilkeduha {וַיִּלְכְּדֻהָ | wayyilqedûhā} and vayyoresh {וַיּוֹרֶשׁ | wayyōreš} portray first the capture and then the dispossession of the Amorite inhabitants.
In context — Numbers 32:39
The sons of Machir, son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and captured it, and they drove out the Amorites who were there.
About this coordinate
Numbers 32:39:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Numbers 32:39, so the Hebrew word וַיּ֖וֹרֶשׁ (vayoresh) 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.32.39.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.32.39.W7.S1) and character.