Leviticus 15:16:5Lev.15.16.W5TAB
וְרָחַ֥ץ
vehrahkhats
“wash”
- Transliteration
- veh-rah-KHATS
- Extended
- veh-rah-KHATS
- IPA
- /və.raˈħaʦ/
Meaning by language
- English
- wash
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' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
veh-rah-KHATS
- phraseyour reading level
veh-rah-KHATS bam-MA-yim
- clause
veh-rah-KHATS bam-MA-yim ET-KOL-be-SA-RO veh-ta-ME ad-ha-A-rev
- 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
The apodosis begins with the vav-consecutive verb verachats {וְרָחַץ | wə-rā-ḥaṣ} ‘and he shall wash’, followed by the prepositional phrase bammayim {בַּמַּיִם | ba-ma-yim} ‘in the water’ and the object cluster etkolbesaro {אֶת־כָּל־בְּשָׂרוֹ | et kol bə-sārô} ‘all his flesh’.
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 15:16:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 15:16, so the Hebrew word וְרָחַ֥ץ (vehrahkhats) 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.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.16.W5.S1) and character.