Ezekiel 18:6:14Ezek.18.6.W14TAB
וְאֶל־אִשָּׁ֥ה
veelishsha
“and to a woman”
- Transliteration
- ve-el-ish-SHA
- Extended
- veh-ehl-ihsh-SHAA
- IPA
- /wəʔɛl.ʔiʃˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and to a woman
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 | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-el-ish-SHA
- phraseyour reading level
ve-el-ish-SHA nid-DA
- clause
ve-et-E-shet re-E-hu LO tim-ME ve-el-ish-SHA nid-DA LO yik-RAV
- sentence
el-ha-he-ha-RIM LO a-KHAL ve-e-NAIV LO na-SA el-gil-lu-LE BET yis-ra-EL ve-et-E-shet re-E-hu LO tim-ME ve-el-ish-SHA nid-DA LO yik-RAV
Exegesis
The final clause ve-el ishah niddah lo yikrav {וְאֶל־אִשָּׁ֥ה נִדָּ֖ה לֹ֥א יִקְרָֽב | wə-ʾel i ššā nid-dā lō yiq-rāḇ} prohibits approach to a menstruous woman, with niddah {נִדָּה | nid-dā} ‘menstrual impurity’ as the governing noun. The parallel structure underscores comprehensive moral purity.
In context — Ezekiel 18:6
He does not eat upon the mountains , nor lift his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defile the wife of his neighbor, nor approach a woman in her menstrual impurity .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 18:6:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Ezekiel 18:6, so the Hebrew word וְאֶל־אִשָּׁ֥ה (veelishsha) 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 Ezek.18.6.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.18.6.W14.S1) and character.