Genesis 46:5:5Gen.46.5.W5PAT

וַיִּשְׂא֨וּ

vayisu

carried

Transliteration
va-yis-U
Extended
vah-yihs-OO
IPA
/waj.jisˈʔuː/

Meaning by language

English
carried
French
portèrent
Spanish
llevaron
Portuguese
levaram
German
trugen
Russian
понесли
Arabic-Simplified
وَحَمَلُوا
Hindi
उठाकर ले चले
Chinese-Simplified
抬起
Korean
실어 옮겼다
Indonesian
mengangkut
Bengali
বহন করল
Tagalog
at binuhat
Swahili
wakabeba
Amharic
ሸከሙ
Yoruba
gbé
Igbo
buru
Twi
soa
Ewe
tsɔ

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יִּשְׂ + א֨וּ
va + yis + u
vayisu

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
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
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-yis-U

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-yis-U ve-NEI-yis-ra-EL

  3. clause

    va-yis-U ve-NEI-yis-ra-EL et-ya-a-KOV a-vi-HEM ve-et-ta-PAM ve-et-ne-SHE-hem ba-a-ga-LOT a-sher-sha-LAKH par-OH la-SET o-TO

  4. sentence

    va-ya-KAM ya-a-KOV mib-be-ER sha-VA va-yis-U ve-NEI-yis-ra-EL et-ya-a-KOV a-vi-HEM ve-et-ta-PAM ve-et-ne-SHE-hem ba-a-ga-LOT a-sher-sha-LAKH par-OH la-SET o-TO

In contextGenesis 46:5

arose Jacob from Beer Sheba carried the sons of Israel Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons that sent Pharaoh to carry him

About this coordinate

Genesis 46:5:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 46:5, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׂא֨וּ (vayisu) 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.46.5.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.46.5.W5.S1) and character.