Genesis 37:31:4Gen.37.31.W4PAT
וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙
vayishekhatu
“and they slaughtered”
- Transliteration
- va-yi-she-kha-TU
- Extended
- vah-yih-sheh-khah-TOO
- IPA
- /vaj.ji.ʃə.ħăˈtuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they slaughtered
- French
- et ils égorgèrent
- Spanish
- y degollaron
- Portuguese
- e degolaram
- German
- und sie schlachteten
- Russian
- и они закололи
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَذَبَحُوا
- Hindi
- और उन्होंने वध किया
- Chinese-Simplified
- 就宰了
- Korean
- 그리고 그들이 도살하였다
- Indonesian
- dan mereka menyembelih
- Bengali
- আর তারা জবাই করল
- Tagalog
- at kinatay nila
- Swahili
- na wakachinja
- Amharic
- እነርሱም አረዱ
- Yoruba
- àti wọ́n pa
- Igbo
- ha gbuuru
- Twi
- na wokum
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yi-she-kha-TU
- clause
va-yi-she-kha-TU se-IR iz-ZIM va-yi-te-be-LU ET-ha-kut-TO-net ba-DAM
- sentence
va-yi-qe-KHU ET-ke-TO-net yo-SEF va-yi-she-kha-TU se-IR iz-ZIM va-yi-te-be-LU ET-ha-kut-TO-net ba-DAM
In context — Genesis 37:31
and they took tunic Joseph and they slaughtered male goat goats and they dipped the tunic in the blood
About this coordinate
Genesis 37:31:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 37:31, so the Hebrew word וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ (vayishekhatu) 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.37.31.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.37.31.W4.S1) and character.