Genesis 26:8:6Gen.26.8.W6PAT

וַיַּשְׁקֵ֗ף

vayashkef

looked out

Transliteration
va-yash-KEF
Extended
vah-yash-KEHF
IPA
/va.jaʃ.ˈqeːf/

Meaning by language

English
looked out
French
regarda dehors
Spanish
miró hacia fuera
Portuguese
olhou para fora
German
schaute hinaus
Russian
выглянул
Arabic-Simplified
وَأَشْرَفَ
Hindi
बाहर झांका
Chinese-Simplified
向外观看
Korean
내다보았다
Indonesian
memandang ke luar
Bengali
বাইরে তাকাল
Tagalog
at tumanaw sa labas
Swahili
alitazama nje
Amharic
ወደ ውጭ ተመለከተ
Yoruba
wo jáde
Igbo
lere anya n'èzí
Twi
hwɛɛ fii adi
Ewe
kpɔ le go

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יַּשְׁ + קֵ֗ף
va + yash + kef
vayashkef

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Qofq — deep k, uvular
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Pe Sofitfinal form of Pe — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-yash-KEF

  2. clause

    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

  3. 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 contextGenesis 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 26:8:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 26:8, so the Hebrew word וַיַּשְׁקֵ֗ף (vayashkef) 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.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.26.8.W6.S1) and character.