Leviticus 15:28:1Lev.15.28.W1TAB
וְאִֽם־טָהֲרָ֖ה
vehimtaharah
“but if cleansed”
- Transliteration
- veh-im-ta-ha-RAH
- Extended
- veh-IHM-tah-hah-RAA
- IPA
- /və.ʔim.ta.haˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- but if cleansed
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 | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-im-ta-ha-RAH
- clause
veh-im-ta-ha-RAH miz-zoh-VAH
- sentence
veh-im-ta-ha-RAH miz-zoh-VAH veh-saf-RAH LAH shiv-AT ya-MIM veh-ah-KHAR tit-HAR
Exegesis
The clause begins with the conditional protasis marked by ve’im {וְאִם | wə-ʾim} ‘and if’, introducing the legal scenario.
The Qal perfect verb taharah {טָהֲרָה | ṭā-ḥă-rāh} ‘she is cleansed’ indicates completed ritual purification.
Root and etymology
t-h-rtet-heh-resh
“to be pure”
In context — Leviticus 15:28
But if she is cleansed from her discharge , then she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:28:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 15:28, so the Hebrew word וְאִֽם־טָהֲרָ֖ה (vehimtaharah) 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.15.28.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.28.W1.S1) and character.