Leviticus 15:16:2Lev.15.16.W2TAB
כִּֽי־תֵצֵ֥א
keetehtse
“if comes out”
- Transliteration
- kee-teh-TSE
- Extended
- kee-teh-TSEH
- IPA
- /kiː.teˈtseː/
Meaning by language
- English
- if comes out
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kee-teh-TSE
- phraseyour reading level
kee-teh-TSE mih-me-NU
- clause
veh-EESH kee-teh-TSE mih-me-NU shikh-vat-ZA-ra
- sentence
veh-EESH kee-teh-TSE mih-me-NU shikh-vat-ZA-ra veh-rah-KHATS bam-MA-yim ET-KOL-be-SA-RO veh-ta-ME ad-ha-A-rev
Exegesis
It opens with the subject ish {אִישׁ | ʾîš} ‘man’ followed by the conditional clause ki tetse mimmennu shikhbat-zera {כִּי־תֵצֵא מִמֶּנּוּ שִׁכְבַת־זָרַע | kî-tē-ṣēʾ mim-men-nû šikh-bat zā-rāʿ} ‘when emission of semen goes out from him’, with the verb agreeing in feminine singular.
In context — Leviticus 15:16
And if a man has an emission of semen, he shall wash all his flesh in water, and he shall be unclean until the evening .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:16:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Leviticus 15:16, so the Hebrew word כִּֽי־תֵצֵ֥א (keetehtse) 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.15.16.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.16.W2.S1) and character.