Genesis 39:11:1Gen.39.11.W1PAT

וַיְהִי֙

vayehi

and it happened

Transliteration
va-ye-HI
Extended
vah-yeh-HEE
IPA
/va.jəˈhiː/

Meaning by language

English
and it happened
French
et il arriva
Spanish
y sucedió
Portuguese
e aconteceu
German
und es geschah
Russian
и было
Arabic-Simplified
وَحَدَثَ
Hindi
और ऐसा हुआ
Chinese-Simplified
就发生了
Korean
그리고 일이 일어났다
Indonesian
dan terjadilah
Bengali
এবং ঘটল
Tagalog
at nangyari
Swahili
ikawa
Amharic
እንዲህም ሆነ
Yoruba
ó sì ṣẹlẹ̀
Igbo
o wee mee
Twi
na ɛbae

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Result
וַ + יְ + הִי֙
va + ye + hi
vayehi

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-ye-HI

  2. clause

    va-ye-HI ke-ha-YOM ha-ZEH va-ya-VO ha-BA-ye-ta la-a-SOT me-la-khe-TO

  3. sentence

    va-ye-HI ke-ha-YOM ha-ZEH va-ya-VO ha-BA-ye-ta la-a-SOT me-la-khe-TO ve-EIN ISH me-a-ne-SHEI ha-BA-yit SHAM ba-BA-yit

In contextGenesis 39:11

and it happened like the day this and he came to the house to do his work and there was no man from the men of the house there in the house

About this coordinate

Genesis 39:11:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 39:11, so the Hebrew word וַיְהִי֙ (vayehi) 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.39.11.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.39.11.W1.S1) and character.