Leviticus 13:12:10Lev.13.12.W10TAB
מֵרֹאשׁ֖וֹ
merosho
“from his head”
- Transliteration
- me-ro-SHO
- Extended
- meh-roh-SHOH
- IPA
- /meːroˈʃoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- from his head
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-ro-SHO
- clause
veh-IM-pa-ROH-akh tif-RAKH ha-tsa-RA-at bah-OR veh-khis-TAA ha-tsa-RA-at ET KOL-OR ha-NE-ga me-ro-SHO veh-AD-rag-LAV
- sentence
veh-IM-pa-ROH-akh tif-RAKH ha-tsa-RA-at bah-OR veh-khis-TAA ha-tsa-RA-at ET KOL-OR ha-NE-ga me-ro-SHO veh-AD-rag-LAV leh-KOL-mar-EH ee-NEE ha-ko-HEN
Exegesis
The range expression me-rosho ve-‘ad-raglav {מֵרֹאשׁ֖וֹ וְעַד־רַגְלָ֑יו | mē-rō-šōw wə-ʿad-rag-lāv} ‘from his head to his feet’ defines the extent.
Root and etymology
ר־א־שׁ
“head, top”
In context — Leviticus 13:12
And if the skin disease spreads out in the skin and covers all the skin of the afflicted person from his head to his feet, as far as the appearance is seen by the eyes of the priest.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:12:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Leviticus 13:12, so the Hebrew word מֵרֹאשׁ֖וֹ (merosho) 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.13.12.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.12.W10.S1) and character.