Leviticus 14:28:13Lev.14.28.W13TAB
וְעַל־בֹּ֥הֶן
vealbohen
“and on the big toe of”
- Transliteration
- ve-al-BO-hen
- Extended
- veh-ahl-BOH-hen
- IPA
- /və.ʕalˈboː.hɛn/
Meaning by language
- English
- and on the big toe of
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-al-BO-hen
- phraseyour reading level
ve-al-BO-hen rag-LO
- clause
ve-na-TAN ha-ko-HEN min-ha-SHE-men a-SHER al-kap-PO al-te-NUKH O-zen ha-mi-ta-HER ha-ye-ma-NIT ve-al-BO-hen ya-DO ha-ye-ma-NIT ve-al-BO-hen rag-LO ha-ye-ma-NIT
- sentence
ve-na-TAN ha-ko-HEN min-ha-SHE-men a-SHER al-kap-PO al-te-NUKH O-zen ha-mi-ta-HER ha-ye-ma-NIT ve-al-BO-hen ya-DO ha-ye-ma-NIT ve-al-BO-hen rag-LO ha-ye-ma-NIT al-me-KOM DAM ha-a-SHAM
Exegesis
Repeated prepositional phrases using al {עַל־ | ʿal} ‘upon’ introduce a series of precise anatomical locations, each linked by construct chains: tenukh ʼōzen {תְּנוּךְ אֹזֶן | te-nûḵ ʼō-zen} ‘lobe of ear,’ bohen yado {בֹּהֶן יָדוֹ | bō-hen yā-dō} ‘thumb of hand,’ and bohen raglo {בֹּהֶן רַגְל֖וֹ | bō-hen ra-g-lō} ‘big toe of foot.’
Root and etymology
b-h-nbet-heh-nun
“thumb/big toe”
In context — Leviticus 14:28
And the priest shall put from the oil that is in his palm upon the lobe of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the big toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the guilt offering .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 14:28:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Leviticus 14:28, so the Hebrew word וְעַל־בֹּ֥הֶן (vealbohen) 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.14.28.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.14.28.W13.S1) and character.