Leviticus 13:30:9Lev.13.30.W9TAB
שֵׂעָ֥ר
sehar
“hair”
- Transliteration
- seh-AR
- Extended
- seh-AAR
- IPA
- /se.ˈʕaːr/
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-AR
- phraseyour reading level
seh-AR tsa-HOV
- clause
ve-ra-AH ha-ko-HEN et-ha-NE-ga ve-hin-NEH mar-EH-hu a-MOK min-ha-OR u-VO seh-AR tsa-HOV DAK
- sentence
ve-ra-AH ha-ko-HEN et-ha-NE-ga ve-hin-NEH mar-EH-hu a-MOK min-ha-OR u-VO seh-AR tsa-HOV DAK ve-ti-MEH o-TO ha-ko-HEN NE-tek HU tsa-ra-AT ha-ROSH O ha-za-KAN HU
Exegesis
The focus shifts with u-vo {וּב֛וֹ | û-bō(w)} to se-ar tsahov dāq {שֵׂעָר צָהֹב דָּק | se-‘ār tsā-hōv dāq} “thin yellow hair.”
Root and etymology
ʿ-w-rayin-vav-resh
“skin, hide”
In context — Leviticus 13:30
And the priest will look at the sore, and behold, its appearance is deeper than the skin, and in it is thin yellow hair. The priest will pronounce the person unclean; it is a patch ; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:30:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Leviticus 13:30, so the Hebrew word שֵׂעָ֥ר (sehar) 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.13.30.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.30.W9.S1) and character.