Deuteronomy 17:10:12Deut.17.10.W12TAB
וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֣
veshamarta
“and you shall be careful”
- Transliteration
- ve-sha-mar-TA
- Extended
- veh-shah-mar-TAH
- IPA
- /vəʃaːmarˈtaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and you shall be careful
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Word in context
- word
ve-sha-mar-TA
- phraseyour reading level
ve-sha-mar-TA la-a-SOT
- clause
ve-sha-mar-TA la-a-SOT ke-KHOL a-SHER yo-ru-KHA
- sentence
ve-a-si-TA al-PI ha-da-VAR a-SHER ya-gi-DU le-KHA min-ha-ma-KOM ha-HU a-SHER yiv-KHAR Ye-ho-VAH ve-sha-mar-TA la-a-SOT ke-KHOL a-SHER yo-ru-KHA
Exegesis
The second vav-consecutive Qal perfect ve-shamarta {וְשָׁמַרְתָּ | wə-šam-mar-tā} ‘and you shall be careful’ creates a syntactic parallelism, followed by the infinitive la-asot {לַעֲשׂוֹת | la-ʿă-sōṯ} ‘to do’ and the distributive construction ke-kol {כְּכֹל | kə-ḵōl} ‘according to all’, linked by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} to the Hiphil imperfect yorukha {יוֹרֽוּךָ | yō-rū-ḵā} ‘they instruct you’. This sequence of relative clauses and vav-consecutives highlights a graded chain of authority, emphasizing obedience to divinely sanctioned judicial decisions.
Root and etymology
š-m-rshin-mem-resh
“to guard, keep”
In context — Deuteronomy 17:10
And you shall act according to the command that they declare to you from the place that the LORD chooses, and you shall be careful to do everything that they instruct you.
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 17:10:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Deuteronomy 17:10, so the Hebrew word וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֣ (veshamarta) 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 Deut.17.10.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.17.10.W12.S1) and character.