Leviticus 13:26:6Lev.13.26.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 lah-VAAN
- clause
veh-IM yir-eh-NAAH ha-koh-HEN veh-hin-NEH EYN-ba-be-HER-et seh-AAR lah-VAAN oo-sheh-fah-LAH eh-nen-NAAH min-ha-OR veh-HI khe-HAAH
- sentence
veh-IM yir-eh-NAAH ha-koh-HEN veh-hin-NEH EYN-ba-be-HER-et seh-AAR lah-VAAN oo-sheh-fah-LAH eh-nen-NAAH min-ha-OR veh-HI khe-HAAH veh-his-gi-ROH ha-koh-HEN shiv-AT ya-MEEM
Exegesis
Ein-ba-beheret se’ar lavan {אֵין־בַּבֶּהֶרֶת שֵׂעָר לָבָן | ʾêyn ba-be-he-ret se-ʿār lā-vān} negates the presence of white hairs.
Root and etymology
ʿ-w-rayin-vav-resh
“skin, hide”
In context — Leviticus 13:26
And if the priest looks at it and, behold, there is no white hair in the spot and it is not lower than the skin but is faint, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:26:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Leviticus 13:26, 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.13.26.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.26.W6.S1) and character.