Exodus 7:12:4Exod.7.12.W4PAT
וַיִּהְי֖וּ
vayihyu
“and they became”
- Transliteration
- va-yih-YU
- Extended
- vah-yih-YOO
- IPA
- /vaj.jihˈjuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they became
- French
- et ils devinrent
- Spanish
- y llegaron a ser
- Portuguese
- e tornaram-se
- German
- und sie wurden
- Russian
- и стали
- Arabic-Simplified
- وصارت
- Hindi
- और वे बन गए
- Chinese-Simplified
- 就成了
- Korean
- 그리고 되었다
- Indonesian
- dan menjadi
- Bengali
- আর তারা হয়ে গেল
- Tagalog
- at naging
- Swahili
- na zikawa
- Amharic
- ሆኑም
- Yoruba
- wọn si di
- Igbo
- ha wee bụrụ
- Twi
- na ɛdanee
- Ewe
- eye zu
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yih-YU
- clause
va-yash-li-KHU EESH mat-TE-hu va-yih-YU le-tan-ni-NIM
- sentence
va-yash-li-KHU EESH mat-TE-hu va-yih-YU le-tan-ni-NIM va-yiv-LA mat-TE-a-ha-RON et-mat-to-TAM
In context — Exodus 7:12
and they threw down each man his staff and they became into serpents and swallowed the staff of Aaron their staffs
About this coordinate
Exodus 7:12:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Exodus 7:12, so the Hebrew word וַיִּהְי֖וּ (vayihyu) 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.7.12.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.7.12.W4.S1) and character.