Genesis 9:18:1Gen.9.18.W1PAT

וַיִּֽהְי֣וּ

vayihyu

were

Transliteration
va-yih-YU
Extended
vah-yih-YOO
IPA
/waj.jihˈjuː/

Meaning by language

English
were
French
étaient
Spanish
eran
Portuguese
eram
German
waren
Russian
были
Arabic-Simplified
وكانوا
Hindi
थे
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
이었다
Indonesian
adalah
Bengali
ছিল
Tagalog
ay
Swahili
walikuwa
Amharic
ነበሩ
Yoruba
jẹ́
Igbo
bụ
Twi
Ewe
nye

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יִּֽהְ + י֣וּ
va + yih + yu
vayihyu

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-yih-YU

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-yih-YU ve-nei-NO-akh

  3. clause

    va-yih-YU ve-nei-NO-akh ha-yo-tse-IM min-ha-te-VA SHEM ve-KHAM va-YA-fet

  4. sentence

    va-yih-YU ve-nei-NO-akh ha-yo-tse-IM min-ha-te-VA SHEM ve-KHAM va-YA-fet ve-KHAM HU a-VI ke-NA-an

In contextGenesis 9:18

the sons of Noah who came out from the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth and Ham he father of Canaan

About this coordinate

Genesis 9:18:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 9:18, so the Hebrew word וַיִּֽהְי֣וּ (vayihyu) 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.9.18.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.9.18.W1.S1) and character.