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

Result
מֵ + רֹא + שׁ֖וֹ
me + ro + sho
merosho

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go

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Word in context

  1. word

    me-ro-SHO

  2. 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

  3. 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 contextLeviticus 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.