Leviticus 15:19:1Lev.15.19.W1TAB
וְאִשָּׁה֙
veishah
“and a woman”
- Transliteration
- ve-i-SHAH
- Extended
- veh-ee-SHAAH
- IPA
- /və.ʔiʃˈʃaː/
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
ve-i-SHAH
- clause
ve-i-SHAH kee-ti-YEH za-VAH DAM yih-YEH zo-VAH biv-sa-RAH
- sentence
ve-i-SHAH kee-ti-YEH za-VAH DAM yih-YEH zo-VAH biv-sa-RAH shiv-AT ya-MIM tih-YEH be-nid-da-TAH veh-KHOL-hah-no-GEH-ah BAH yit-MA ad-ha-AH-rev
Exegesis
The verse begins with the vav-consecutive subject clause ve’ishah {וְאִשָּׁה֙ | wə-ʾiš-šāh} ‘and a woman’, followed by the temporal conjunction kî {כִּֽי־ | kî} ‘when’.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph-shin-heh
“woman”
In context — Leviticus 15:19
And when a woman has a discharge and the discharge is blood in her flesh, she shall be unclean for seven days , and anyone who touches her shall be unclean until the evening .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:19:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 15:19, so the Hebrew word וְאִשָּׁה֙ (veishah) 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.15.19.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.19.W1.S1) and character.