Genesis 42:35:8Gen.42.35.W8PAT

וַיִּרְא֞וּ

vayiru

saw

Transliteration
va-yir-U
Extended
vah-yir-OO
IPA
/waj.jir.ˈʔuː/

Meaning by language

English
saw
French
virent
Spanish
vieron
Portuguese
viram
German
sahen
Russian
увидели
Arabic-Simplified
وَرَأَوْا
Hindi
देखा
Chinese-Simplified
看见了
Korean
보았다
Indonesian
melihat
Bengali
দেখল
Tagalog
nakita
Swahili
wakaona
Amharic
አዩ
Yoruba
Igbo
hụrụ
Twi
hui
Ewe
kpɔ

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יִּרְ + א֞וּ
va + yir + u
vayiru

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-yir-U

  2. clause

    va-yir-U et-tse-ro-ROT kas-fe-HEM HEM-ma va-a-VI-hem va-yi-ra-U

  3. sentence

    va-ye-HI HEM me-ri-KIM sa-ke-HEM ve-hi-ne-ISH tse-ror-kas-FO be-sa-KO va-yir-U et-tse-ro-ROT kas-fe-HEM HEM-ma va-a-VI-hem va-yi-ra-U

In contextGenesis 42:35

and it happened they emptying their sacks and behold each man bundle of money in his sack saw bundles of their money they and their father were afraid

About this coordinate

Genesis 42:35:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 42:35, so the Hebrew word וַיִּרְא֞וּ (vayiru) 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.42.35.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.42.35.W8.S1) and character.