Leviticus 13:8:1Lev.13.8.W1TAB
וְרָאָה֙
vehrahah
“saw”
- Transliteration
- veh-rah-AH
- Extended
- veh-rah-AA
- IPA
- /və.raˈʔaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- saw
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 | |
| 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-rah-AH
- clause
veh-rah-AH ha-ko-HEN veh-hin-NEH pahs-TA ham-mis-PA-khat ba-OR
- sentence
veh-rah-AH ha-ko-HEN veh-hin-NEH pahs-TA ham-mis-PA-khat ba-OR veh-tim-me-OH ha-ko-HEN TSA-ra-at HI
Exegesis
The verse opens with the vav-consecutive perfect vera’ah {וְרָאָה֙ | və-rā-’āh} marking priestly action (subject: hakohen {הַכֹּהֵ֔ן | ha-kô-hên}).
Root and etymology
r-’-h
“to see, observe”
In context — Leviticus 13:8
And the priest will see, and behold, the rash has spread in the skin; he shall pronounce him unclean—it is a defiling skin disease.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 13:8:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 13:8, so the Hebrew word וְרָאָה֙ (vehrahah) 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.13.8.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.13.8.W1.S1) and character.