Genesis 7:10:6Gen.7.10.W6PAT

הָי֖וּ

hayu

were

Transliteration
ha-YU
Extended
hah-YOO
IPA
/haː.ˈjuː/

Meaning by language

English
were
French
étaient
Spanish
estaban
Portuguese
estavam
German
waren
Russian
были
Arabic-Simplified
كَانَتْ
Hindi
थे
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
있었다
Indonesian
berada
Bengali
ছিল
Tagalog
naroon
Swahili
yalikuwa
Amharic
ነበሩ
Yoruba
Igbo
dị
Twi
Ewe

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Result
הָ + י֖וּ
ha + yu
hayu

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-YU

  2. clause

    u-MEI ha-mab-BUL ha-YU al-ha-A-RETS

  3. sentence

    va-ye-HI le-shiv-AT ha-ya-MIM u-MEI ha-mab-BUL ha-YU al-ha-A-RETS

In contextGenesis 7:10

{And} it happened after seven days and the waters of the deluge were upon the earth

About this coordinate

Genesis 7:10:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 7:10, so the Hebrew word הָי֖וּ (hayu) 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.7.10.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.7.10.W6.S1) and character.