Exodus 19:21:9Exod.19.21.W9TAB
לִרְא֔וֹת
lirot
“to look”
- Transliteration
- lir-OT
- Extended
- lih-ROHT
- IPA
- /lirˈʔoːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- to look
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lir-OT
- clause
pen-ye-her-SU el-ye-ho-VAH lir-OT ve-na-FAL mih-me-NU RAV
- sentence
va-yo-MER Ye-ho-VAH el-mo-SHE RED ha-ED ba-AM pen-ye-her-SU el-ye-ho-VAH lir-OT ve-na-FAL mih-me-NU RAV
Exegesis
This is qualified by el-YHWH {אֶל־יְהוָה | ʾel-Yə-hō-wāh} ‘toward the LORD’ and the infinitive lirot {לִרְאוֹת | lir-ʾôṯ} ‘to see’, emphasizing the forbidden gaze at divine presence.
In context — Exodus 19:21
And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people so they do not break through to the LORD to see, and many of them perish.”
About this coordinate
Exodus 19:21:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Exodus 19:21, so the Hebrew word לִרְא֔וֹת (lirot) 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.19.21.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.19.21.W9.S1) and character.