Genesis 24:30:1Gen.24.30.W1PAT

וַיְהִ֣י

vayehi

and it happened

Transliteration
va-ye-HI
Extended
vah-yeh-HEE
IPA
/vajəˈhiː/

Meaning by language

English
and it happened
French
et il arriva
Spanish
y sucedió
Russian
и было
Arabic-Simplified
وحدث
Hindi
और ऐसा हुआ
Chinese-Simplified
就发生了
Swahili
na ikawa
Twi
na ɛbaa sɛ

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Result
וַ + יְ + הִ֣י
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. phraseyour reading level

    va-ye-HI ki-re-OT et-ha-NE-zem

  3. clause

    va-ye-HI ki-re-OT et-ha-NE-zem ve-et-ha-tse-mi-DIM al-ye-DE a-kho-TO u-khe-sha-me-O et-di-ve-RE ri-ve-KA a-kho-TO le-MOR ko-di-BER e-LAI ha-ISH

  4. sentence

    va-ye-HI ki-re-OT et-ha-NE-zem ve-et-ha-tse-mi-DIM al-ye-DE a-kho-TO u-khe-sha-me-O et-di-ve-RE ri-ve-KA a-kho-TO le-MOR ko-di-BER e-LAI ha-ISH va-ya-VO el-ha-ISH ve-hin-NE o-MED al-ha-ge-mal-LIM al-ha-A-yin

In contextGenesis 24:30

and it happened when he saw the ring and the bracelets upon the hands of his sister and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister saying thus spoke the man to me and he came to the man and behold standing by the camels by the spring

About this coordinate

Genesis 24:30:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 24:30, so the Hebrew word וַיְהִ֣י (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.24.30.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.24.30.W1.S1) and character.