Genesis 21:30:1Gen.21.30.W1PAT

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר

vayomer

he said

Transliteration
va-YO-mer
Extended
vah-YOH-mehr
IPA
/waj.ˈjoː.mɛr/

Meaning by language

English
he said
French
il dit
Spanish
dijo
Portuguese
disse
German
er sagte
Russian
он сказал
Arabic-Simplified
وقالَ
Hindi
उसने कहा
Chinese-Simplified
他说
Korean
그가 말하였다
Indonesian
ia berkata
Bengali
সে বলল
Tagalog
at sinabi niya
Swahili
akasema
Amharic
እርሱ አለ
Yoruba
ó sọ
Igbo
o kwuru
Twi
ɔkaa
Ewe
eɖo

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Result
וַ + יֹּ֕א + 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. clause

    va-YO-mer KI et-SHE-va ke-va-SOT ti-KAKH mi-ya-DI

  3. sentence

    va-YO-mer KI et-SHE-va ke-va-SOT ti-KAKH mi-ya-DI ba-a-VUR ti-he-ye-LI le-e-DA KI kha-FAR-ti et-ha-be-ER ha-ZOT

In contextGenesis 21:30

he said for seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand so that it may be for me as a witness that I dug well this

About this coordinate

Genesis 21:30:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 21:30, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (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 Gen.21.30.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.21.30.W1.S1) and character.