Leviticus 13:10:4Lev.13.10.W4TAB
שְׂאֵת־לְבָנָה֙
sehetlehvanah
“white swelling”
- Transliteration
- seh-et-leh-va-NAH
- Extended
- seh-eht-leh-va-NAA
- IPA
- /sə.ʔeːt.lə.va.ˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- white swelling
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
seh-et-leh-va-NAH
- phraseyour reading level
veh-hi-NEH seh-et-leh-va-NAH
- clause
veh-rah-AH ha-ko-HEN veh-hi-NEH seh-et-leh-va-NAH ba-OR veh-HI haf-KHAH seh-AR la-VAN
- sentence
veh-rah-AH ha-ko-HEN veh-hi-NEH seh-et-leh-va-NAH ba-OR veh-HI haf-KHAH seh-AR la-VAN oo-mikh-YAT ba-SAR KHAI bah-seh-ET
Exegesis
The construct phrase seet levanah baor {שְׂאֵת־ לְבָנָה בָּע֔וֹר | sə-’êṯ lə-vā-nāh bā-’ôr} ‘white swelling in the skin’ conveys the initial symptom.
Root and etymology
Rootn-s-’
“to lift”
In context — Leviticus 13:10
And the priest shall see, and behold, a white swelling appears in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a living spot of flesh within the swelling,
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:10:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 13:10, so the Hebrew word שְׂאֵת־לְבָנָה֙ (sehetlehvanah) 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 Lev.13.10.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.10.W4.S1) and character.