Deuteronomy 23:5:1Deut.23.5.W1PATWLC Deuteronomy 23:6
וְלֹא־אָבָה֙
vehloh ava
“was unwilling”
- Transliteration
- veh-loh a-VA
- Extended
- veh-loh a-VAA
- IPA
- /vəloː.ʔaˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- was unwilling
- French
- n’a pas voulu
- Spanish
- no quiso
- Portuguese
- não quis
- German
- wollte nicht
- Russian
- не захотел
- Arabic-Simplified
- لم يشأ
- Hindi
- नहीं चाहा
- Chinese-Simplified
- 不肯
- Korean
- 원하지 않았다
- Indonesian
- tidak mau
- Bengali
- চায়নি
- Tagalog
- ayaw
- Swahili
- hakutaka
- Amharic
- አልፈለገም
- Yoruba
- kò fẹ́
- Igbo
- achọghị
- Twi
- wampɛ
- Ewe
- megbe
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-loh a-VA
- sentence
veh-loh a-VA yeh-ho-VAH eh-lo-HEH-kha lish-MO-a el-bil-AM va-ya-ha-FOKH yeh-ho-VAH eh-lo-HEH-kha le-KHA et-hak-ke-la-LAH liv-ra-KHA KI a-HEHV-kha yeh-ho-VAH eh-lo-HEH-kha
In context — Deuteronomy 23:5
was unwilling LORD your God to listen to Balaam turned LORD your God for you the curse into a blessing because loved you LORD your God
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 23:5:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 23:5, so the Hebrew word וְלֹא־אָבָה֙ (vehloh ava) 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 Deut.23.5.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.23.5.W1.S1) and character.