Genesis 28:17:2Gen.28.17.W2PAT

וַיֹּאמַ֔ר

vayomar

said

Transliteration
va-yo-MAR
Extended
vah-yoh-MAHR
IPA
/vaj.joː.ˈmar/

Meaning by language

English
said
French
dit
Spanish
dijo
Portuguese
disse
German
sagte
Russian
сказал
Arabic-Simplified
وَقَالَ
Hindi
कहा
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
말하였다
Indonesian
berkata
Bengali
বলল
Tagalog
at sinabi
Swahili
alisema
Amharic
አለ
Yoruba
sọ
Igbo
sịrị
Twi
kaa
Ewe
gblɔ

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יֹּא + מַ֔ר
va + yo + mar
vayomar

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Memm as in mother
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-yo-MAR

  2. clause

    va-yi-RA va-yo-MAR mah-no-RA ha-ma-KOM ha-ZEH

  3. 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 contextGenesis 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 28:17:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Genesis 28:17, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּאמַ֔ר (vayomar) 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.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.28.17.W2.S1) and character.