Genesis 42:24:3Gen.42.24.W3PAT
וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ
vayevke
“he wept”
- Transliteration
- va-YEV-ke
- Extended
- vah-YEHV-keh
- IPA
- /vaj.ˈjevk/
Meaning by language
- English
- he wept
- French
- il pleura
- Spanish
- lloró
- Portuguese
- chorou
- German
- er weinte
- Russian
- он заплакал
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَبَكَى
- Hindi
- वह रोया
- Chinese-Simplified
- 他哭了
- Korean
- 그는 울었다
- Indonesian
- ia menangis
- Bengali
- তিনি কাঁদলেন
- Tagalog
- at umiyak siya
- Swahili
- akalia
- Amharic
- እርሱ አለቀሰ
- Yoruba
- ó sunkún
- Igbo
- ọ bere ákwá
- Twi
- ɔsui
- Ewe
- eɖe avi
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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
va-YEV-ke
- clause
va-yis-SOV me-a-lei-HEM va-YEV-ke
- sentence
va-yis-SOV me-a-lei-HEM va-YEV-ke va-ya-SHAV a-le-HEM va-ye-da-BER a-le-HEM va-yik-KAKH me-it-TAM et-shim-ON va-ye-e-SOR o-TO le-ey-NEI-hem
In context — Genesis 42:24
{And} he turned away from them he wept he returned to them he spoke to them he took from among them Simeon he bound him before their eyes
About this coordinate
Genesis 42:24:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 42:24, so the Hebrew word וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ (vayevke) 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.42.24.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.42.24.W3.S1) and character.