Genesis 50:15:1Gen.50.15.W1PAT
וַיִּרְא֤וּ
vayiru
“and saw”
- Transliteration
- va-yir-U
- Extended
- vah-yihr-OO
- IPA
- /vaj.jir.ˈʔuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and saw
- French
- et virent
- Spanish
- y vieron
- Portuguese
- e viram
- German
- und sie sahen
- Russian
- и увидели
- Arabic-Simplified
- وَرَأَوْا
- Hindi
- और उन्होंने देखा
- Chinese-Simplified
- 就看见
- Korean
- 그리고 그들은 보았다
- Indonesian
- dan mereka melihat
- Bengali
- আর তারা দেখল
- Tagalog
- at nakita nila
- Swahili
- na wakaona
- Amharic
- እነርሱም አዩ
- Yoruba
- wọn sì rí
- Igbo
- ha wee hụ
- Twi
- na wohunuu
- Ewe
- eye wokpɔ
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 | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yir-U
- phraseyour reading level
va-yir-U a-KHEI-yo-SEF
- clause
va-yir-U a-KHEI-yo-SEF ki-MET a-vi-HEM va-yo-MRU LU yis-te-ME-nu yo-SEF
- sentence
va-yir-U a-KHEI-yo-SEF ki-MET a-vi-HEM va-yo-MRU LU yis-te-ME-nu yo-SEF ve-ha-SHEV ya-SHIV la-NU ET kol-ha-ra-AH a-SHER ga-MAL-nu o-TO
In context — Genesis 50:15
and saw the brothers of Joseph that was dead their father and they said perhaps he will hate us Joseph and surely repay he will repay to us all the evil that we did him
About this coordinate
Genesis 50:15:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 50:15, so the Hebrew word וַיִּרְא֤וּ (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.50.15.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.50.15.W1.S1) and character.