Exodus 12:41:8Exod.12.41.W8PAT

וַיְהִ֗י

vayehi

and it happened

Transliteration
va-ye-HI
Extended
vah-yeh-HEE
IPA
/wa.jə.ˈhiː/

Meaning by language

English
and it happened
French
et il arriva
Spanish
y ocurrió
Portuguese
e aconteceu
German
und es geschah
Russian
и было
Arabic-Simplified
وَحَدَثَ
Hindi
और ऐसा हुआ
Chinese-Simplified
事情发生了
Korean
그리고 일이 일어났다
Indonesian
dan terjadilah
Bengali
এবং ঘটল
Tagalog
at nangyari
Swahili
ikawa
Amharic
እናም ሆነ
Yoruba
si o si ṣẹlẹ
Igbo
o wee mee
Twi
na ɛbaa sɛ
Ewe
eye wɔdzɔ

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יְ + הִ֗י
va + ye + hi
vayehi

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-ye-HI

  2. clause

    va-ye-HI be-E-tsem ha-YOM ha-ZEH ya-tse-U kol-tsiv-OT Ye-ho-VAH me-E-rets mits-RA-yim

  3. sentence

    va-ye-HI mi-KETS she-lo-SHIM sha-NA ve-ar-BA me-OT sha-NA va-ye-HI be-E-tsem ha-YOM ha-ZEH ya-tse-U kol-tsiv-OT Ye-ho-VAH me-E-rets mits-RA-yim

In contextExodus 12:41

and it happened at the end of thirty year and four hundreds year and it happened on the very the day this went out all the hosts of LORD from the land of Egypt

About this coordinate

Exodus 12:41:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Exodus 12:41, so the Hebrew word וַיְהִ֗י (vayehi) 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 Exod.12.41.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.12.41.W8.S1) and character.