Leviticus 13:39:12Lev.13.39.W12TAB
טָה֥וֹר
tahor
“clean”
- Transliteration
- ta-HOR
- Extended
- tah-HOHR
- IPA
- /taˈhoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- clean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ta-HOR
- phraseyour reading level
ta-HOR HU
- clause
BO-hak HU pa-RAKH ba-OR ta-HOR HU
- sentence
veh-ra-AH ha-ko-HEN ve-hin-NEH veh-or-be-sa-RAM be-ha-ROT KE-hoht leh-va-NOT BO-hak HU pa-RAKH ba-OR ta-HOR HU
Exegesis
The concluding nominal clause tahor hu {טָה֥וֹר הֽוּא | ṭā-ḥôr hū} ‘it is clean’ delivers the ritual purity verdict, preserving the Hebrew copulative structure in English.
Root and etymology
t-h-rtet–heh–resh
“to be clean”
In context — Leviticus 13:39
And the priest shall look, and behold, on the skin of their flesh there are dull white spots; it is a skin discoloration that has broken out on the skin, and the person is clean.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:39:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Leviticus 13:39, so the Hebrew word טָה֥וֹר (tahor) 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.13.39.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.39.W12.S1) and character.