Deuteronomy 22:21:1Deut.22.21.W1TAB

וְהוֹצִיאוּ

vehotsiu

then they shall bring out

Transliteration
ve-ho-tsi-U
Extended
veh-hoh-tsee-OO
IPA
/vəhoːtsiˈʔuː/

Meaning by language

English
then they shall bring out

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Result
וְ + הוֹ + צִיא + וּ
ve + ho + tsi + u
vehotsiu

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Tsadets as in cats
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-ho-tsi-U

  2. sentence

    ve-ho-tsi-U et-ha-na-a-RA had-DE-lat-BEIT-a-vi-HA u-se-ka-lu-HA a-na-SHEI i-RAH ba-a-va-NIM va-me-TA ki as-TA ne-va-LAH be-yis-ra-EL liz-NOT BEIT a-vi-HA u-vi-AR-ta ha-RA mi-kir-BE-kha

Exegesis

The verse opens with a vav-consecutive Hiphil verb vehotzi’u {וְהוֹצִ֨יאוּ | wə-hō-ṣî-ʾû} ‘and you shall bring out’, signaling a judicial command.

In contextDeuteronomy 22:21

And you shall bring out the young woman to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she has done a disgraceful act in Israel by acting as a prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 22:21:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 22:21, so the Hebrew word וְהוֹצִיאוּ (vehotsiu) 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.22.21.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.21.W1.S1) and character.