Genesis 30:16:8Gen.30.16.W8PAT

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙

vatomer

said

Transliteration
va-TO-mer
Extended
vah-TOH-mehr
IPA
/vatˈtoː.mɛr/

Meaning by language

English
said
French
dit
Spanish
dijo
Portuguese
disse
German
sagte
Russian
сказала
Arabic-Simplified
وَقَالَتْ
Hindi
कहा
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
말했다
Indonesian
berkata
Bengali
বলল
Tagalog
at sinabi
Swahili
akasema
Amharic
አለች
Yoruba
sọ
Igbo
sịrị
Twi
kaa
Ewe
gblɔ

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Result
וַ + תֹּ֙א + מֶר֙
va + to + mer
vatomer

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Tavt as in top
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-TO-mer

  2. clause

    va-ya-VO ya-a-KOV min-ha-sa-DE ba-E-rev va-te-TSE le-AH lik-ra-TO va-TO-mer e-LAI ta-VO KI sa-KHOR se-khar-TI-kha be-du-da-EI be-NI

  3. sentence

    va-ya-VO ya-a-KOV min-ha-sa-DE ba-E-rev va-te-TSE le-AH lik-ra-TO va-TO-mer e-LAI ta-VO KI sa-KHOR se-khar-TI-kha be-du-da-EI be-NI va-yish-KAV im-MAH ba-LAI-la HU

In contextGenesis 30:16

came Jacob from the field in the evening went out Leah to meet him said to me come for surely I have hired you with the mandrakes of my son lay with her in the night he

About this coordinate

Genesis 30:16:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 30:16, so the Hebrew word וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (vatomer) 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.30.16.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.30.16.W8.S1) and character.