Genesis 28:17:1Gen.28.17.W1PAT
וַיִּירָא֙
vayira
“was afraid”
- Transliteration
- va-yi-RA
- Extended
- vah-yee-RAA
- IPA
- /vaj.jiː.ˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- was afraid
- French
- eut peur
- Spanish
- temió
- Portuguese
- temeu
- German
- fürchtete sich
- Russian
- испугался
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَخَافَ
- Hindi
- डर गया
- Chinese-Simplified
- 害怕了
- Korean
- 두려워하였다
- Indonesian
- takut
- Bengali
- ভয় পেল
- Tagalog
- at natakot
- Swahili
- aliogopa
- Amharic
- ፈራ
- Yoruba
- bẹ̀rù
- Igbo
- tụrụ egwu
- Twi
- suroe
- Ewe
- vɔ̃
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yi-RA
- clause
va-yi-RA va-yo-MAR mah-no-RA ha-ma-KOM ha-ZEH
- sentence
va-yi-RA va-yo-MAR mah-no-RA ha-ma-KOM ha-ZEH EIN ZEH KI im-BEIT e-lo-HIM ve-ZEH SHA-ar ha-sha-MA-yim
In context — Genesis 28:17
was afraid said how fearsome place this is nothing this but the house of God and this the gate of the heavens
About this coordinate
Genesis 28:17:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 28:17, so the Hebrew word וַיִּירָא֙ (vayira) 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.28.17.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.28.17.W1.S1) and character.