Leviticus 10:20:1Lev.10.20.W1PAT
וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע
vayishma
“heard”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-MA
- Extended
- vah-yish-MAH
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃ.ˈmaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- heard
- French
- entendit
- Spanish
- oyó
- Portuguese
- ouviu
- German
- hörte
- Russian
- услышал
- Arabic-Simplified
- سَمِعَ
- Hindi
- सुना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 听见了
- Korean
- 들었다
- Indonesian
- mendengar
- Bengali
- শুনল
- Tagalog
- narinig
- Swahili
- alisikia
- Amharic
- ሰማ
- Yoruba
- gbọ́
- Igbo
- nụrụ
- Twi
- tee
- Ewe
- se
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
וַ + יִּשְׁ + מַ֣ע
↓
va + yish + ma
↓
vayishma
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 | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal |
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Vowels (Niqqud)
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-MA
- phraseyour reading level
va-yish-MA mo-SHEH
- sentence
va-yish-MA mo-SHEH va-yi-TAV be-ey-NAAV
In context — Leviticus 10:20
Moses heard approved in his eyes
About this coordinate
Leviticus 10:20:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 10:20, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע (vayishma) 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 Lev.10.20.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.10.20.W1.S1) and character.