Genesis 48:14:4Gen.48.14.W4PAT

וַיָּ֨שֶׁת

vayashet

placed

Transliteration
va-YA-shet
Extended
vah-YAA-shet
IPA
/waj.ˈjaː.ʃɛt/

Meaning by language

English
placed
French
posa
Spanish
puso
Portuguese
pôs
German
legte
Russian
положил
Arabic-Simplified
ووضع
Hindi
रखा
Chinese-Simplified
放在
Korean
놓았다
Indonesian
meletakkan
Bengali
রাখলেন
Tagalog
at ipinatong
Swahili
akaweka
Amharic
አኖረ
Yoruba
gbe
Igbo
dobe
Twi
de sii
Ewe
ɖo

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יָּ֨ + שֶׁת
va + ya + shet
vayashet

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Qametslong 'ah'
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Tavt as in top

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-YA-shet

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-YA-shet al-ROSH ef-RA-yim

  3. clause

    va-yish-LAKH yis-ra-EL et-ye-mi-NO va-YA-shet al-ROSH ef-RA-yim ve-HU ha-tsa-IR ve-et-se-mo-LO al-ROSH me-na-SHEH

  4. sentence

    va-yish-LAKH yis-ra-EL et-ye-mi-NO va-YA-shet al-ROSH ef-RA-yim ve-HU ha-tsa-IR ve-et-se-mo-LO al-ROSH me-na-SHEH si-KEL et-ya-DAV KI me-na-SHEH hab-be-KHOR

In contextGenesis 48:14

{And} stretched out Israel his right hand placed on the head of Ephraim he was the younger and his left hand on the head of Manasseh he guided his hands for Manasseh was the firstborn

About this coordinate

Genesis 48:14:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 48:14, so the Hebrew word וַיָּ֨שֶׁת (vayashet) 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.48.14.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.48.14.W4.S1) and character.