Leviticus 13:21:6Lev.13.21.W6TAB
שֵׂעָ֣ר
sehaar
“hair”
- Transliteration
- seh-AAR
- Extended
- seh-AAR
- IPA
- /seˈʕaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- hair
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
seh-AAR
- phraseyour reading level
seh-AAR la-VAN
- clause
veh-IM yir-eh-NA ha-ko-HEN veh-hin-NEH ehn-BAH seh-AAR la-VAN oo-sheh-fah-LAH eh-nen-NA min-ha-OR veh-HEE keh-HAA
- sentence
veh-IM yir-eh-NA ha-ko-HEN veh-hin-NEH ehn-BAH seh-AAR la-VAN oo-sheh-fah-LAH eh-nen-NA min-ha-OR veh-HEE keh-HAA veh-his-gee-RO ha-ko-HEN shiv-AT ya-MIM
Exegesis
The particle vehinneh {וְהִנֵּה | wə-hinnēh} ‘and behold’ shifts focus to the diagnostic criteria: ein-bah {אֵין־בָּהּ | ʾēn-bāh} ‘there is none in it’ with se'ar lavan {שֵׂעָר לָבָן | sēʿār lāḇān} ‘white hair,’ followed by u-shefaḷah einenah {וּשְׁפָלָה אֵינֶנָּה | ū-šep̄ālāh ʾēnennāh} ‘and depressed it is not’ setting a spatial limit (min-haor {מִן־הָעוֹר | min-hāʿôr} ‘than the skin’), and vehi kehah {וְהִיא כֵּהָה | wə-hîʾāh kēhāh} ‘and it is faded’ adding a chromatic description.
Root and etymology
š-ʿ-rshin-ayin-resh
“hair”
In context — Leviticus 13:21
And if the priest examines it and, behold, there is no white hair in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, and it is faded , then the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:21:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Leviticus 13:21, so the Hebrew word שֵׂעָ֣ר (sehaar) 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.13.21.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.21.W6.S1) and character.