Genesis 43:21:1Gen.43.21.W1PAT

וַֽיְהִ֞י

vayehi

and it happened

Transliteration
va-ye-HI
Extended
vah-yeh-HEE
IPA
/wa.jə.ˈhiː/

Meaning by language

English
and it happened
French
et il advint
Spanish
y aconteció
Portuguese
e aconteceu
German
und es geschah
Russian
и случилось
Arabic-Simplified
وَحَدَثَ
Hindi
और ऐसा हुआ
Chinese-Simplified
事情就这样发生了
Korean
그리고 일이 이렇게 되었다
Indonesian
dan terjadilah
Bengali
আর এমন ঘটল
Tagalog
at nangyari
Swahili
ikawa
Amharic
እንዲህም ሆነ
Yoruba
ó sì ṣẹlẹ̀
Igbo
ọ wee mee
Twi
na ɛbaa sɛ
Ewe
eye wò

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַֽ + יְ + הִ֞י
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 ki-VA-nu el-ha-ma-LON va-nif-te-KHA et-am-te-kho-TEI-nu ve-hin-NEH ke-sef-ISH be-FI am-takh-TO kas-PE-nu be-mish-ka-LO

  3. sentence

    va-ye-HI ki-VA-nu el-ha-ma-LON va-nif-te-KHA et-am-te-kho-TEI-nu ve-hin-NEH ke-sef-ISH be-FI am-takh-TO kas-PE-nu be-mish-ka-LO va-NA-shev o-TO be-ya-DE-nu

In contextGenesis 43:21

and it happened when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks behold money of each man in the mouth of his sack our money by its weight we brought back it in our hand

About this coordinate

Genesis 43:21:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 43:21, so the Hebrew word וַֽיְהִ֞י (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.43.21.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.43.21.W1.S1) and character.