Genesis 30:18:1Gen.30.18.W1PAT

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר

vatomer

said

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

Meaning by language

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

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Result
וַ + תֹּ֣א + מֶר
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. phraseyour reading level

    va-TO-mer le-AH

  3. clause

    va-TO-mer le-AH na-TAN e-lo-HIM se-kha-RI a-sher-na-TAT-ti shif-kha-TI le-i-SHI

  4. sentence

    va-TO-mer le-AH na-TAN e-lo-HIM se-kha-RI a-sher-na-TAT-ti shif-kha-TI le-i-SHI va-tik-RA she-MO yis-sa-KHAR

In contextGenesis 30:18

said Leah has given God my wages because I gave my maidservant to my husband she called his name Issachar

About this coordinate

Genesis 30:18:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 30:18, so the Hebrew word וַתֹּ֣אמֶר (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.30.18.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.30.18.W1.S1) and character.