Leviticus 15:8:2Lev.15.8.W2TAB
הַזָּ֖ב
hazav
“the one with the discharge”
- Transliteration
- ha-ZAV
- Extended
- hah-ZAAV
- IPA
- /ha.ˈzaːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- the one with the discharge
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Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
ha-ZAV
- 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 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’.
Root and etymology
z-w-bzayin-waw-bet
“to flow, discharge”
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 15:8:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Leviticus 15:8, so the Hebrew word הַזָּ֖ב (hazav) 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.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.8.W2.S1) and character.