Hosea 13:2:3Hos.13.2.W3TAB
לַחֲטֹ֖א
lakhato
“to sin”
- Transliteration
- la-kha-TO
- Extended
- lah-khah-TOH
- IPA
- /laħăˈtˁoːʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- to sin
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-kha-TO
- clause
ve-a-TA po-si-FU la-kha-TO va-ya-A-SU la-HEM ma-se-KHA mi-kas-PAM kit-vu-NAM a-tsa-BIM ma-a-SE kha-ra-SHIM ku-LO la-HEM
- sentence
ve-a-TA po-si-FU la-kha-TO va-ya-A-SU la-HEM ma-se-KHA mi-kas-PAM kit-vu-NAM a-tsa-BIM ma-a-SE kha-ra-SHIM ku-LO la-HEM HEM o-me-RIM zov-KHE a-DAM a-ga-LIM yi-sha-KUN
Exegesis
The Hiphil imperfect yosifu + infinitive lachato {יֹסִפוּ לַחֲטֹא | yō-sî-p̄ū lā-ḥă-ṭōʾ} forms an idiom of intensification (‘continue to sin’), underscoring escalation.
Root and etymology
RootChet–Tet–Aleph
“miss, sin”
In context — Hosea 13:2
And now they keep adding to sin , and they make for themselves a cast image from their silver, according to their own design—idols, all of it the work of craftsmen . They say, “Let those who sacrifice humans kiss calves.”
About this coordinate
Hosea 13:2:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Hosea 13:2, so the Hebrew word לַחֲטֹ֖א (lakhato) 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 Hos.13.2.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Hos.13.2.W3.S1) and character.