Exodus 8:17:6Exod.8.17.W6PATWLC Exodus 8:13

וַיַּךְ֙

vayakh

and struck

Transliteration
va-YAKH
Extended
vah-YAKH
IPA
/wajˈjax/

Meaning by language

English
and struck
French
et frappa
Spanish
y golpeó
Portuguese
e feriu
German
und schlug
Russian
и ударил
Arabic-Simplified
وضرب
Hindi
और मारा
Chinese-Simplified
并击打
Korean
그리고 쳤다
Indonesian
dan memukul
Bengali
এবং আঘাত করলেন
Tagalog
at hinampas
Swahili
naye akapiga
Amharic
እና መታ
Yoruba
ó lù
Igbo
wee tie
Twi
na ɔbɔe
Ewe
eye fo

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Result
וַ + יַּךְ֙
va + yakh
vayakh

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Kaf Sofitfinal form of Kaf — at word end
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-YAKH

  2. clause

    va-ya-a-su-KHEN va-YET a-ha-RON et-yad-DO be-mat-TE-hu va-YAKH et-a-FAR ha-A-rets vat-te-HI hak-kin-NAM ba-a-DAM u-vab-be-he-MA

  3. sentence

    va-ya-a-su-KHEN va-YET a-ha-RON et-yad-DO be-mat-TE-hu va-YAKH et-a-FAR ha-A-rets vat-te-HI hak-kin-NAM ba-a-DAM u-vab-be-he-MA kol-a-FAR ha-A-rets ha-YA kin-NIM be-khol-E-rets mits-RA-yim

In contextExodus 8:17

and they did so and stretched out Aaron his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth and there came to be the gnats on the man and on the beast all the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt

About this coordinate

Exodus 8:17:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Exodus 8:17, so the Hebrew word וַיַּךְ֙ (vayakh) 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.8.17.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.8.17.W6.S1) and character.