Leviticus 15:18:1Lev.15.18.W1TAB
וְאִשָּׁ֕ה
vehihshah
“and a woman”
- Transliteration
- veh-ih-SHAH
- Extended
- veh-ih-SHAAH
- IPA
- /vəʔiʃˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and a woman
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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 | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-ih-SHAH
- clause
veh-ih-SHAH ah-SHER yish-KAV ISH o-TAH shikh-VAT-ZA-ra
- sentence
veh-ih-SHAH ah-SHER yish-KAV ISH o-TAH shikh-VAT-ZA-ra veh-ra-kha-TSU va-MA-yim veh-tam-U ad-ha-A-rev
Exegesis
The verse begins with the conjunctive preposition veishah {וְאִשָּׁה | wə-ʾiš-šā(h)} ‘and a woman’, marking an additional case within the purity regulations.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph-shin-heh
“woman”
In context — Leviticus 15:18
And a woman with whom a man lies in an emission of semen—both shall wash with water , and they shall be unclean until the evening.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:18:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 15:18, so the Hebrew word וְאִשָּׁ֕ה (vehihshah) 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.15.18.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.18.W1.S1) and character.