Deuteronomy 31:16:1Deut.31.16.W1PAT

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

vayomer

said

Transliteration
va-YO-mer
Extended
vah-YOH-mehr
IPA
/vajˈjoːmɛr/

Meaning by language

English
said
French
dit
Spanish
dijo
Portuguese
disse
German
sagte
Russian
сказал
Arabic-Simplified
قال
Hindi
कहा
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
말하였다
Indonesian
berkata
Bengali
বললেন
Tagalog
nagsabi
Swahili
alisema
Amharic
አለ
Yoruba
sọ
Igbo
sịrị
Twi
kaa
Ewe
gblɔ

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יֹּ֤א + מֶר
va + yo + mer
vayomer

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Memm as in mother
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-YO-mer

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-YO-mer Ye-ho-VAH

  3. clause

    va-YO-mer Ye-ho-VAH el-moh-SHEH hin-NE-kha sho-KHEV im-ah-vo-TE-kha

  4. sentence

    va-YO-mer Ye-ho-VAH el-moh-SHEH hin-NE-kha sho-KHEV im-ah-vo-TE-kha ve-KAM ha-AM ha-ZEH ve-za-NA a-kha-REI e-lo-HEI neh-KHAR-hah-A-retz a-SHER HU ba-SHAM-ma be-KIR-BO va-a-za-VA-ni ve-he-FER et-be-REET-ee a-SHER ka-ra-TI it-TO

In contextDeuteronomy 31:16

LORD said to Moses behold, you lying down with your fathers the people this will arise will whore after foreign gods of the land which he enters there within it will forsake me will break my covenant which I made with him

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 31:16:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 31:16, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (vayomer) 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.31.16.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.31.16.W1.S1) and character.