Exodus 18:20:1Exod.18.20.W1TAB
וְהִזְהַרְתָּ֣ה
vehizharta
“you shall warn”
- Transliteration
- ve-hiz-har-TA
- Extended
- veh-hiz-hahr-TAA
- IPA
- /və.hiz.har.ˈtaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- you shall warn
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 | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| 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' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-hiz-har-TA
- phraseyour reading level
ve-hiz-har-TA et-HEM
- clause
ve-hiz-har-TA et-HEM et-ha-khu-KIM ve-et-ha-to-ROT
- sentence
ve-hiz-har-TA et-HEM et-ha-khu-KIM ve-et-ha-to-ROT ve-ho-da-TA la-HEM et-ha-DE-rekh YEL-khu BAH ve-et-ha-ma-a-SE a-SHER ya-a-SOON
Exegesis
The verse opens with the verb vehiz-harta {וְהִזְהַרְתָּה | wə-hiz-har-tā} ‘and you shall warn’, whose causative Hiphil perfect form and prefixed vav create an ongoing directive.
Root and etymology
h-r-rheh–resh–resh
“hill, mountain”
In context — Exodus 18:20
And you shall warn them about the statutes and the instructions, and you shall make known to them the way in which they should walk and the deed which they should do.
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:20:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Exodus 18:20, so the Hebrew word וְהִזְהַרְתָּ֣ה (vehizharta) 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 Exod.18.20.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.20.W1.S1) and character.