Genesis 38:21:1Gen.38.21.W1PAT
וַיִּשְׁאַ֞ל
vayisheal
“and he asked”
- Transliteration
- va-yi-she-AL
- Extended
- vah-yih-sheh-AHL
- IPA
- /vaj.ji.ʃəˈʔal/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he asked
- French
- et il demanda
- Spanish
- y preguntó
- Portuguese
- e perguntou
- German
- und er fragte
- Russian
- и он спросил
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَسَأَلَ
- Hindi
- और उसने पूछा
- Chinese-Simplified
- 他就询问
- Korean
- 그리고 그가 물었다
- Indonesian
- dan ia bertanya
- Bengali
- আর সে জিজ্ঞাসা করল
- Tagalog
- at siya ay nagtanong
- Swahili
- naye akauliza
- Amharic
- እርሱም ጠየቀ
- Yoruba
- ó sì béèrè
- Igbo
- ọ jụrụ
- Twi
- na obisaa
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 | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yi-she-AL
- clause
va-yi-she-AL et-an-SHEI me-ko-MAH le-a-MOR ai-YEH hak-ke-dei-SHA HI va-ei-NA-yim al-had-DA-rekh
- sentence
va-yi-she-AL et-an-SHEI me-ko-MAH le-a-MOR ai-YEH hak-ke-dei-SHA HI va-ei-NA-yim al-had-DA-rekh va-yo-me-RU lo-ha-ye-TA va-ZEH ke-dei-SHA
In context — Genesis 38:21
and he asked the men of her place saying where the cult prostitute she at Enaim by the road and they said there was not in this a cult prostitute
About this coordinate
Genesis 38:21:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 38:21, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁאַ֞ל (vayisheal) 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.38.21.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.38.21.W1.S1) and character.