Genesis 5:20:1Gen.5.20.W1PAT
וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙
vayiheyu
“{And} came to”
- Transliteration
- va-yi-he-YU
- Extended
- vah-yih-heh-YOO
- IPA
- /waj.jih.ˈjuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- {And} came to
- French
- furent
- Spanish
- fueron
- Portuguese
- foram
- German
- waren
- Russian
- были
- Arabic-Simplified
- وكانت
- Hindi
- थे
- Chinese-Simplified
- 是
- Korean
- 이었다
- Indonesian
- berjumlah
- Bengali
- ছিল
- Tagalog
- at naging
- Swahili
- zilikuwa
- Amharic
- ነበሩ
- Yoruba
- jẹ́
- Igbo
- bụ
- Twi
- duruu
- Ewe
- nye
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yi-he-YU
- clause
va-yi-he-YU kol-ye-mei-YE-red she-TA-yim veh-shish-SHIM sha-NA oo-te-SHA meh-OT sha-NA
- sentence
va-yi-he-YU kol-ye-mei-YE-red she-TA-yim veh-shish-SHIM sha-NA oo-te-SHA meh-OT sha-NA va-ya-MOT
In context — Genesis 5:20
all the days of Jared {And} came to two sixty years nine hundred years {And} he died
About this coordinate
Genesis 5:20:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 5:20, so the Hebrew word וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ (vayiheyu) 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.5.20.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.5.20.W1.S1) and character.