Leviticus 13:40:4Lev.13.40.W4TAB
רֹאשׁ֑וֹ
rosho
“his head”
- Transliteration
- ro-SHO
- Extended
- roh-SHOH
- IPA
- /roˈʃoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- his head
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ro-SHO
- clause
ve-ISH KI yim-ma-RET ro-SHO
- sentence
ve-ISH KI yim-ma-RET ro-SHO ke-RE-akh HU ta-HOR HU
Exegesis
The construct rōʾšô {רֹאשׁ֑וֹ | rōʾšô} ‘his head’ specifies the affected area, leading into the predicate nominal qērēaḥ hûʾ {קֵרֵ֥חַ ה֖וּא | qērēaḥ hûʾ} ‘bald he is’ immediately mirrored by tāhôr hûʾ {טָה֥וֹר הֽוּא׃ | tāhôr hûʾ} ‘he is pure’, where the emphatic pronoun hûʾ underscores the affirmation of ritual purity. This parallel structure emphasizes the legal declaration of purity unaffected by baldness. The translation strategy preserves the non-volitional nuance of yimmāreṭ across both renderings, ensuring the absence of hair is presented as an involuntary condition.
Root and etymology
ר־א־שׁ
“head, top”
In context — Leviticus 13:40
When a man’s head is made bare , he is clean .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:40:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 13:40, so the Hebrew word רֹאשׁ֑וֹ (rosho) 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.13.40.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.40.W4.S1) and character.