Genesis 24:22:1Gen.24.22.W1PAT

וַיְהִ֗י

vayehi

it happened

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

Meaning by language

English
it happened
French
il arriva
Spanish
aconteció
Portuguese
aconteceu
German
geschah
Russian
случилось
Arabic-Simplified
حدث
Hindi
हुआ
Chinese-Simplified
发生了
Korean
일어났다
Indonesian
terjadi
Bengali
ঘটল
Tagalog
nangyari
Swahili
ikatokea
Amharic
ሆነ
Yoruba
ó ṣẹlẹ
Igbo
o mere
Twi
ɛbaa
Ewe
eɖe

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 ka-a-SHER kil-LU hag-ge-ma-LIM lish-TOT va-yik-KAKH ha-ISH NE-zem zah-HAAV BE-ka mish-ka-LO

  3. sentence

    va-ye-HI ka-a-SHER kil-LU hag-ge-ma-LIM lish-TOT va-yik-KAKH ha-ISH NE-zem zah-HAAV BE-ka mish-ka-LO u-SHNEI tse-mi-DIM al-ya-DE-ha a-sa-RA zah-HAAV mish-ka-LAM

In contextGenesis 24:22

it happened when finished the camels drinking the man took a ring of gold half a shekel its weight and two bracelets on her hands ten gold their weight

About this coordinate

Genesis 24:22:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 24:22, 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 Gen.24.22.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.24.22.W1.S1) and character.