Leviticus 16:2:1Lev.16.2.W1PAT

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

vayomer

said

Transliteration
va-yo-MER
Extended
vah-yoh-MEHR
IPA
/vaj.joˈmɛr/

Meaning by language

English
said
French
dit
Spanish
dijo
Portuguese
disse
German
sagte
Russian
сказал
Arabic-Simplified
قال
Hindi
कहा
Chinese-Simplified
说了
Korean
말했다
Indonesian
berkata
Bengali
বলল
Tagalog
nagsabi
Swahili
alisema
Amharic
አለ
Yoruba
sọ
Igbo
kwuru
Twi
kaa
Ewe
gblɔ

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וַ + יֹּ֨א + מֶר
va + yo + mer
vayomer

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Memm as in mother
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-yo-MER

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-yo-MER Ye-ho-VAH

  3. clause

    va-yo-MER Ye-ho-VAH el-mo-SHE da-BER el-a-ha-RON a-KHEE-kha ve-AL-ya-VO be-khol-ET el-ha-KO-desh mi-BEET la-pa-RO-khet

  4. sentence

    va-yo-MER Ye-ho-VAH el-mo-SHE da-BER el-a-ha-RON a-KHEE-kha ve-AL-ya-VO be-khol-ET el-ha-KO-desh mi-BEET la-pa-RO-khet el-pe-NEE ha-ka-PO-ret a-SHER al-ha-a-RON ve-LO ya-MUT ki be-a-NAAN e-ra-EH al-ha-ka-PO-ret

In contextLeviticus 16:2

LORD said to Moses speak to Aaron your brother not come at all times into the Holy Place from inside the veil before the mercy seat that on the ark not die for appear in the cloud on the mercy seat

About this coordinate

Leviticus 16:2:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 16:2, so the Hebrew word וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (vayomer) 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.16.2.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.16.2.W1.S1) and character.