Leviticus 13:3:5Lev.13.3.W5TAB
וְשֵׂעָ֨ר
vesear
“and hair”
- Transliteration
- ve-se-AR
- Extended
- veh-seh-AAR
- IPA
- /vəseˈʕaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and hair
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| 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
ve-se-AR
- phraseyour reading level
ve-se-AR ba-NE-ga
- clause
ve-ra-AH ha-koh-HEN et-ha-NE-ga be-OR-ha-ba-SAR ve-se-AR ba-NE-ga ha-FAKH la-VAN u-mar-EH ha-NE-ga a-MOK me-OR be-sa-RO NE-ga tsa-ra-AT HU
- sentence
ve-ra-AH ha-koh-HEN et-ha-NE-ga be-OR-ha-ba-SAR ve-se-AR ba-NE-ga ha-FAKH la-VAN u-mar-EH ha-NE-ga a-MOK me-OR be-sa-RO NE-ga tsa-ra-AT HU ve-ra-A-hu ha-koh-HEN ve-ti-ME o-TO
Exegesis
A coordinated clause se-ar ba-nnega {שֵׂעָר בַּנֶּגַע | se-ʾār ba-nē-ʼāʿ} ‘the hair in the sore’ is followed by hafakh {הָפַךְ | hā-p̄akh} ‘has turned’ and lavan {לָבָן | lā-ḇān} ‘white’.
Root and etymology
ʿ-w-rayin-vav-resh
“skin, hide”
In context — Leviticus 13:3
And the priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the flesh. If the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a sore of leprosy . When the priest looks at it, he shall pronounce him unclean.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:3:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 13:3, so the Hebrew word וְשֵׂעָ֨ר (vesear) 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.13.3.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.3.W5.S1) and character.