Genesis 29:19:1Gen.29.19.W1PAT

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

vayomer

said

Transliteration
va-YO-mer
Extended
vah-YOH-mehr
IPA
/vaj.ˈjoː.mɛr/

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
nagsabi
Swahili
akasema
Amharic
አለ
Yoruba
sọ
Igbo
sịrị
Twi
kaa
Ewe
gblɔ

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יֹּ֣א + מֶר
va + yo + mer
vayomer

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
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-YO-mer

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-YO-mer la-VAN

  3. clause

    va-YO-mer la-VAN TOV ti-TI o-TAH LAKH mi-ti-TI o-TAH le-ISH a-KHER

  4. sentence

    va-YO-mer la-VAN TOV ti-TI o-TAH LAKH mi-ti-TI o-TAH le-ISH a-KHER she-VA im-ma-DI

In contextGenesis 29:19

said Laban better I give her to you than I give her to another man stay with me

About this coordinate

Genesis 29:19:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 29:19, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (vayomer) 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.29.19.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.29.19.W1.S1) and character.