Leviticus 13:40:8Lev.13.40.W8TAB

הֽוּא׃

hu

he

Transliteration
HU
Extended
HOO
IPA
/ˈhuː/

Meaning by language

English
he

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    HU

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ta-HOR HU

  3. clause

    ke-RE-akh HU ta-HOR HU

  4. 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.

In contextLeviticus 13:40

When a man’s head is made bare , he is clean .

About this coordinate

Leviticus 13:40:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Leviticus 13:40, so the Hebrew word הֽוּא׃ (hu) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.40.W8.S1) and character.