Bible Dictionary: Waw

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

WAW

waw "w": The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; transliterated in this Encyclopedia "w" (or "v"). It came also to be used for the number 6. For name, etc., see ALPHABET.

Library

Choruses
... 2 Tell it to Jesus. Klosh mika waw-waw, klosh mika waw-waw Kopa Jesus, mika delate
tilikum; Halo huloima tilikum kawkwa Jesus, Klosh mika waw-waw kopa yaka. ...
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Now the Chains of Sin are Broken.
... 41 NOW THE CHAINS OF SIN ARE BROKEN. 1 Alta nika kopet masat-chie, Alta klosh nika
tumtum; Jesus, yahka waw-waw klosh Kopa nika sick tumtum. Hallelujah! ...
/.../various/indian methodist hymn-book/41 now the chains of.htm

Arise My Soul Arise.
... 3 Jesus kwansum yahka pray Kopa yahka Papa, Spose mamook klahowyum nika Kopa nika
tumtum, 'Halo mika sollex Papa', Kwansum Jesus yahka waw-waw. ...
/.../various/indian methodist hymn-book/38 arise my soul arise.htm

Chapter xv
... It is construed with be, as here, or with le. The form is unusual, perfect with
waw, not as one would expect, imperfect with waw conversive. ...
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Chapter xxxviii
... intent upon discrediting a good text, labels the wehayah of the last clause as
"impossible." The clause being a digression has no waw conversive, simply waw ...
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Chapter xxiv
... patriarchs. 3. The waw introducing the first verb is final: that I may cause,
as also in v.14 Genesis 24:14 and v.51 Genesis 24:51. ...
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Chapter xxxiv
... Despite his great grief Jacob "kept still" "the perfect with waw conversive makes
a durative imperfect (KS367 i). Everyone can understand how the father's ...
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Ecclesiastes
... Alike in its single words (eg, preference for abstract nouns ending in uth) its
syntax (eg, the almost entire absence of waw conversive) and its general ...
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Chapter xl
... on the part of each, for literally it means, "they sinned." This verb does not connect
with the introductory verb "it came to pass" by the customary "and" (waw ...
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Chapter xli
... The details are explained in the preceding chapter. In v.11, in nachalmah the ending
ah with waw conversive is quite the exception (GK49e and KS200). ...
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Thesaurus

Waw (1 Occurrence)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia WAW. ...Waw (1 Occurrence). Psalms 119:41 Waw.' And
meet me doth Thy kindness, O Jehovah, Thy salvation according to Thy saying. ...
/w/waw.htm - 6k

Esther (48 Occurrences)
... The conjunction "w" (waw = and), with which it begins, is significant. It
shows that the book was designed for a place in a series ...
/e/esther.htm - 58k

Acrostic (2 Occurrences)
... Text. The initials of 9:1, 3, 5 are respectively 'aleph, beth, gimel; of
9:9, 11, 13, 15, 17 waw, zayin, cheth, Teth and yodh. Psalm ...
/a/acrostic.htm - 15k

Jericho (59 Occurrences)
... 25:5 and in Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles it is written yerecho; yericho, elsewhere):
In 1 Kings 16:34 the final Hebrew letter is he (h), instead of waw (w). The ...
/j/jericho.htm - 38k

Bel (3 Occurrences)
... The commonest and most undoubted Semiticism is the repeated use of kai and kai egeneto
with the force of the waw-consecutive and only to be explained and ...
/b/bel.htm - 39k

Dragon (20 Occurrences)
... The commonest and most undoubted Semiticism is the repeated use of kai and kai egeneto
with the force of the waw-consecutive and only to be explained and ...
/d/dragon.htm - 56k

Aramaic (12 Occurrences)
... of the Jewish Targums, there was the Samaritan Pentateuch; in it, besides many foreign
elements in the vocabulary, the use of `ayin instead of waw in the ...
/a/aramaic.htm - 31k

Samaritan (8 Occurrences)
... to variation in the Massoretic Text. Cases involving the confusion of waw
and yodh are instances in point. It may be said that every ...
/s/samaritan.htm - 42k

Preacher (27 Occurrences)
... The imperfect with waw consecutive, the ordinary Hebrew narrative tense,
occurs-for example, "And I applied my heart" (1:17)-but it is rare. ...
/p/preacher.htm - 48k

Ecclesiastes (1 Occurrence)
... The imperfect with waw consecutive, the ordinary Hebrew narrative tense,
occurs-for example, "And I applied my heart" (1:17)-but it is rare. ...
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Bible Concordance

Waw (1 Occurrence)

Psalms 119:41 Waw.' And meet me doth Thy kindness, O Jehovah, Thy salvation according to Thy saying.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Waw

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Esther (48 Occurrences)

Acrostic (2 Occurrences)

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Bel (3 Occurrences)

Dragon (20 Occurrences)

Aramaic (12 Occurrences)