Leviticus 18:5:8Lev.18.5.W8PAT

וָחַ֣י

vachai

live

Transliteration
va-CHAI
Extended
vah-KHAI
IPA
/vaˈχaj/

Meaning by language

English
live
French
vivre
Spanish
vivir
Portuguese
viver
German
leben
Russian
жить
Arabic-Simplified
يحيا
Hindi
जीना
Chinese-Simplified
Korean
살다
Indonesian
hidup
Bengali
বাঁচা
Tagalog
mabuhay
Swahili
kuishi
Amharic
መኖር
Yoruba
Igbo
dị ndụ
Twi
tena ase
Ewe

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Result
וָ + חַ֣י
va + chai
vachai

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Qametslong 'ah'
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    va-CHAI

  2. phraseyour reading level

    va-CHAI ba-HEM

  3. clause

    u-sheh-MAR-TEM eht-KHUK-koh-TAI veh-eht-mish-pa-TAI a-SHER ya-a-SEH o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-CHAI ba-HEM

  4. sentence

    u-sheh-MAR-TEM eht-KHUK-koh-TAI veh-eht-mish-pa-TAI a-SHER ya-a-SEH o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-CHAI ba-HEM a-NEE Ye-ho-VAH

In contextLeviticus 18:5

keep my statutes my ordinances which the person do them live by them I LORD

About this coordinate

Leviticus 18:5:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Leviticus 18:5, so the Hebrew word וָחַ֣י (vachai) 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.18.5.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.18.5.W8.S1) and character.