Leviticus 15:24:8Lev.15.24.W8TAB
עָלָ֔יו
alav
“upon him”
- Transliteration
- a-LAV
- Extended
- ah-LAAV
- IPA
- /ʕa.ˈlav/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon him
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
a-LAV
- clause
ve-IM sha-KHOV yish-KAV EESH o-TAH oo-te-HI nid-DA-TAH a-LAV ve-ta-ME shiv-AT ya-MEEM
- sentence
ve-IM sha-KHOV yish-KAV EESH o-TAH oo-te-HI nid-DA-TAH a-LAV ve-ta-ME shiv-AT ya-MEEM ve-KHOL-ha-mish-KAV a-SHER-yish-KAV a-LAV yit-MA
Exegesis
Niddatah {נִדָּתָהּ | nid-dā-ṯāh} ‘impurity’ becoming alav {עָלָיו | ʿā-lāw} ‘upon him’ marks the causal effect.
The parallel clause ve-kol-ha-mishkav-asher-yishkav-alav {וְכָל־הַמִּשְׁכָּב אֲשֶׁר־יִשְׁכַּב עָלָיו | wə-ḵāl ham-miš-kāv ʾă-šer-yiš-kav-ʿā-lāw} ‘and every bed on which he lies’ concludes with yitma {יִטְמָא | yiṯ-māʾ} ‘shall be unclean’. This structure preserves the formal legal progression, highlighting the intensification by the infinitive absolute and the sequential nature of Hebrew judicial pronouncements.
In context — Leviticus 15:24
And if a man lies with her, and her menstrual impurity becomes upon him, then he shall be unclean for seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:24:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Leviticus 15:24, so the Hebrew word עָלָ֔יו (alav) 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.15.24.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.24.W8.S1) and character.