Leviticus 15:18:7Lev.15.18.W7TAB
וְרָחֲצ֣וּ
vehrakhatsu
“and shall bathe”
- Transliteration
- veh-ra-kha-TSU
- Extended
- veh-rah-kha-TSOO
- IPA
- /vəraħaˈtsu/
Meaning by language
- English
- and shall bathe
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 | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-ra-kha-TSU
- phraseyour reading level
veh-ra-kha-TSU va-MA-yim
- clause
veh-ra-kha-TSU va-MA-yim veh-tam-U ad-ha-A-rev
- 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 vav-consecutive verbs wəraḥaṣû {וְרָחֲצוּ | wə-ra-ḥa-ṣū} ‘and they shall wash’ and wəṭāmeʾû {וְטָמְא֖וּ | wə-ṭā-me-ʾū} ‘and they shall be unclean’ apply equally to both participants.
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 15:18:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Leviticus 15:18, so the Hebrew word וְרָחֲצ֣וּ (vehrakhatsu) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.18.W7.S1) and character.