Genesis 26:8:12Gen.26.8.W12PAT
וַיַּ֗רְא
vayar
“he saw”
- Transliteration
- va-YAR
- Extended
- vah-YAHR
- IPA
- /va.ˈjar/
Meaning by language
- English
- he saw
- French
- il vit
- Spanish
- vio
- Portuguese
- viu
- German
- er sah
- Russian
- он увидел
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَرَأَى
- Hindi
- उसने देखा
- Chinese-Simplified
- 他看见了
- Korean
- 그가 보았다
- Indonesian
- ia melihat
- Bengali
- সে দেখল
- Tagalog
- at nakita niya
- Swahili
- akaona
- Amharic
- አየ
- Yoruba
- ó rí
- Igbo
- ọ hụrụ
- Twi
- ohui
- Ewe
- ekpɔ
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-YAR
- clause
va-YAR ve-hin-NEH yits-KHAK me-tsa-KHEK ET riv-KA ish-TO
- sentence
va-ye-HI KI ar-khu-LO SHAM ha-ya-MIM va-yash-KEF a-vi-ME-lekh ME-lekh pe-lish-TIM be-AD ha-khal-LON va-YAR ve-hin-NEH yits-KHAK me-tsa-KHEK ET riv-KA ish-TO
In context — Genesis 26:8
when the days grew long for him there and it happened Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through the window behold he saw Isaac caressing Rebekah his wife
About this coordinate
Genesis 26:8:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Genesis 26:8, so the Hebrew word וַיַּ֗רְא (vayar) 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.26.8.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.26.8.W12.S1) and character.