Leviticus 15:8:1Lev.15.8.W1TAB
וְכִֽי־יָרֹ֛ק
vekheeyahrok
“and if he spits”
- Transliteration
- ve-khee-yah-ROK
- Extended
- veh-khee-yah-ROHK
- IPA
- /wə.xiː.ja.ˈroːq/
Meaning by language
- English
- and if he spits
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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 | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular |
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Word in context
- word
ve-khee-yah-ROK
- clause
ve-khee-yah-ROK ha-ZAV ba-ta-HOR
- sentence
ve-khee-yah-ROK ha-ZAV ba-ta-HOR ve-khi-BES be-ga-DAV ve-ra-KHATS ba-ma-YIM ve-ta-ME ad-ha-AH-rev
Exegesis
The verse opens with the conditional marker vekhi {וְכִֽי | və-ḵî} ‘and when/if’, introducing a protasis in a casuistic law.
The action yā-rōq {יָרֹק | yā-rōq} ‘he spits’ occurs with the subject ha-zāv {הַזָּב | ha-zāv} ‘the man with a discharge’ and the object phrase ba-ṭā-hôr {בַּטָּהוֹר | ba-ṭā-hôr} ‘on a clean person’.
In context — Leviticus 15:8
And if the man with a discharge spits on someone who is clean, then that person shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until the evening .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:8:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 15:8, so the Hebrew word וְכִֽי־יָרֹ֛ק (vekheeyahrok) 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.15.8.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.8.W1.S1) and character.