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
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
וַֽ + יְ + הִ֕י
↓
va + ye + hi
↓
vayehi
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 | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ye-HI
- clause
va-ye-HI mik-KETS ar-ba-IM YOM
- 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 context — Genesis 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.