Psalm 22:2:6Ps.22.2.W6TABWLC Psalms 22:3
וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה
velaila
“and by night”
- Transliteration
- ve-LAI-la
- Extended
- veh-LAI-lah
- IPA
- /wəˈlajlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and by night
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-LAI-la
- clause
ve-LAI-la ve-LO-du-mi-YA LI
- sentence
e-lo-HAI e-KE-ra YO-mam ve-LO ta-A-ne ve-LAI-la ve-LO-du-mi-YA LI
Exegesis
The merism yomam {יוֹמָם | yō-mām} and laylah {לַיְלָה | lay-lāh} frame an unbroken cycle of plea.
Dumiyyah {דֻמִּיָּה | du-miy-yāh} ‘silence’ conveys the absence of God’s voice, while li {לִי | lî} ‘to me’ underscores personal anguish. English renders the Hebrew verb–object–adjunct sequence into a natural subject–verb–object order, preserving parallelism and poetic urgency.
In context — Psalm 22:2
My God , I call out by day, but You do not answer ; and by night, but there is no silence for me.
About this coordinate
Psalm 22:2:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Psalm 22:2, so the Hebrew word וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה (velaila) 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 Ps.22.2.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Ps.22.2.W6.S1) and character.