Leviticus 13:34:19Lev.13.34.W19TAB
וְטָהֵֽר׃
vehtaher
“shall be clean”
- Transliteration
- veh-ta-HER
- Extended
- veh-tah-HER
- IPA
- /və.taˈheːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- shall be clean
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 | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-ta-HER
- clause
veh-ti-HAR o-TO ha-ko-HEN veh-ki-BES be-ga-DAV veh-ta-HER
- 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 piel perfect forms vetihar {וְטִהַ֤ר | və·ṯi·har} and vechibes {וְכִבֶּ֥ס | və·ḳi·bbes} mark the declarative pronouncement and the ritual washing. The parallelism of garment washing and achieving purity concludes the ritual procedure.
Root and etymology
t-h-rTet-Heh-Resh
“to be clean, pure”
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 13:34:19 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 19 of Leviticus 13:34, so the Hebrew word וְטָהֵֽר׃ (vehtaher) 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.W19, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.34.W19.S1) and character.