Leviticus 14:40:11Lev.14.40.W11TAB
לָעִ֔יר
lair
“the city”
- Transliteration
- la-IR
- Extended
- lah-EER
- IPA
- /laˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the city
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-IR
- phraseyour reading level
el-mi-KHUTS la-IR
- clause
veh-hish-LI-khoo et-HEN el-mi-KHUTS la-IR el-ma-KOM ta-ME
- sentence
veh-tsi-VA ha-ko-HEN veh-khil-TSU et-ha-ah-va-NEEM a-SHER ba-HEN ha-NA-ga veh-hish-LI-khoo et-HEN el-mi-KHUTS la-IR el-ma-KOM ta-ME
Exegesis
Successive prepositional phrases el-mikhuts lair {אֶל־מִח֣וּץ לָעִ֔יר | ʾel-miḥûṣ lā-ʿîr} ‘outside the city’ and el-makom {אֶל־מָק֖וֹם | ʾel-māqôm} ‘to a place’ conclude with the adjective tame {טָמֵֽא | ṭāme} ‘unclean’. The structure of chained vav-consecutives, relative clause, and spatial directives emphasizes the legal process of impurity removal.
In context — Leviticus 14:40
And the priest shall command, and they shall tear out the stones which have the infection , and they shall cast them outside the city to an unclean place.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 14:40:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Leviticus 14:40, so the Hebrew word לָעִ֔יר (lair) 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.14.40.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.14.40.W11.S1) and character.