Genesis 35:28:1Gen.35.28.W1PAT
וַיִּֽהְי֖וּ
vayihyu
“were”
- Transliteration
- va-yih-YU
- Extended
- vah-yih-YOO
- IPA
- /waj.jih.ˈjuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- were
- French
- furent
- Spanish
- fueron
- Portuguese
- foram
- German
- waren
- Russian
- были
- Arabic-Simplified
- كانت
- Hindi
- थे
- Chinese-Simplified
- 有
- Korean
- 이었다
- Indonesian
- adalah
- Bengali
- ছিল
- Tagalog
- noon
- Swahili
- zilikuwa
- Amharic
- ነበሩ
- Yoruba
- jẹ́
- Igbo
- bụ
- Twi
- yɛɛ
- Ewe
- nye
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
וַ + יִּֽהְ + י֖וּ
↓
va + yih + yu
↓
vayihyu
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 | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yih-YU
- clause
va-yih-YU ye-MEI yits-KHAK
- sentence
va-yih-YU ye-MEI yits-KHAK me-AT sha-NA u-she-mo-NIM sha-NA
In context — Genesis 35:28
were the days of Isaac one hundred years and eighty years
About this coordinate
Genesis 35:28:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 35:28, so the Hebrew word וַיִּֽהְי֖וּ (vayihyu) 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.35.28.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.35.28.W1.S1) and character.