Leviticus 13:34:1Lev.13.34.W1TAB

וְרָאָה֩

vehraah

“shall examine”

Transliteration: veh-ra-AH
Extended: veh-ra-AAH
IPA: /vɛ.raˈʔaː/

Meaning by language

English: shall examine

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result

וְ + רָ + אָה֩

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veh + ra + ah

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vehraah

Alphabet Analysis

	Vav	v as in vine; marks long ō / ū
	Sheva	vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
	Resh	r guttural, like the French r
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	Aleph	silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	He	h as in house; silent at word end

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The word

Word in context

word
veh-ra-AH
phraseyour reading level
veh-ra-AH ha-ko-HEN et-ha-NE-tek
clause
veh-ra-AH ha-ko-HEN et-ha-NE-tek ba-YOM hash-she-vee-EE veh-hi-NEH lo-fa-SHA ha-NE-tek ba-OR oo-mar-EH-hu ei-NE-nu a-MOK min-ha-OR
sentence
veh-ra-AH ha-ko-HEN et-ha-NE-tek ba-YOM hash-she-vee-EE veh-hi-NEH lo-fa-SHA ha-NE-tek ba-OR oo-mar-EH-hu ei-NE-nu a-MOK min-ha-OR veh-ti-HAR o-TO ha-ko-HEN veh-ki-BES be-ga-DAV veh-ta-HER

Exegesis

The verse employs a vav-consecutive narrative sequence beginning with verra’ah {וְרָאָה֩ | və·rā·’āh} ‘and he will see’, followed by the temporal phrase bayom hashevi’i {בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י | ba·yôm ha·še·vî·ʿî} ‘on the seventh day’.

Root and etymology

“to see, inspect, look”

In context — Leviticus 13:34

And the priest shall look at the scaly eruption on the seventh day, and behold, if the eruption has not spread in the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes , and he shall be clean.

About this coordinate

Leviticus 13:34:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 13:34, so the Hebrew word וְרָאָה֩ (vehraah) 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.13.34.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.34.W1.S1) and character.

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