Genesis 11:4:1Gen.11.4.W1PAT
וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ
vayomru
“said”
- Transliteration
- va-yom-RU
- Extended
- vah-yohm-ROO
- IPA
- /waj.joːm.ˈruː/
Meaning by language
- English
- said
- French
- dirent
- Spanish
- dijeron
- Portuguese
- disseram
- German
- sagten
- Russian
- сказали
- Arabic-Simplified
- قالوا
- Hindi
- कहा
- Chinese-Simplified
- 说
- Korean
- 말하였다
- Indonesian
- berkata
- Bengali
- বলল
- Tagalog
- nagsabi
- Swahili
- walisema
- Amharic
- አሉ
- Yoruba
- sọ
- Igbo
- kwuru
- Twi
- kaa
- Ewe
- gblɔ
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 | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yom-RU
- clause
va-yom-RU ha-VA ni-vneh-LA-nu IR u-mig-DAL ve-RO-sho va-sha-MA-yim ve-na-a-se-LA-nu SHEM
- sentence
va-yom-RU ha-VA ni-vneh-LA-nu IR u-mig-DAL ve-RO-sho va-sha-MA-yim ve-na-a-se-LA-nu SHEM pen-na-FUTS al-pe-NEI khol-ha-A-rets
In context — Genesis 11:4
said come build for ourselves a city and a tower and its top in the heavens make for ourselves a name be dispersed over the surface of the entire earth
About this coordinate
Genesis 11:4:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 11:4, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ (vayomru) 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 Gen.11.4.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.11.4.W1.S1) and character.