Genesis 8:6:1Gen.8.6.W1PAT

וַֽיְהִ֕י

vayehi

it happened

Transliteration
va-ye-HI
Extended
wah-yeh-HEE
IPA
/waj.jə.ˈhiː/

Meaning by language

English
it happened
French
il arriva
Spanish
aconteció
Portuguese
aconteceu
German
geschah
Russian
случилось
Arabic-Simplified
وحدث
Hindi
हुआ
Chinese-Simplified
发生了
Korean
일어났다
Indonesian
terjadi
Bengali
ঘটল
Tagalog
nangyari
Swahili
ikatokea
Amharic
ሆነ
Yoruba
ó ṣẹlẹ̀
Igbo
o mere
Twi
ɛbae
Ewe
e dzɔ

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Result
וַֽ + יְ + הִ֕י
va + ye + hi
vayehi

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-ye-HI

  2. clause

    va-ye-HI mik-KETS ar-ba-IM YOM

  3. sentence

    va-ye-HI mik-KETS ar-ba-IM YOM va-yif-TAKH NO-akh et-khal-LON hat-te-VA a-SHER a-SA

In contextGenesis 8:6

it happened at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the that had built ark

About this coordinate

Genesis 8:6:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 8:6, so the Hebrew word וַֽיְהִ֕י (vayehi) 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.8.6.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.8.6.W1.S1) and character.