Leviticus 16:17:9Lev.16.17.W9TAB
וְכִפֶּ֤ר
vehkihpehr
“and he makes atonement”
- Transliteration
- veh-kih-PEHR
- Extended
- veh-kih-PEHR
- IPA
- /vəxipˈpeːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he makes atonement
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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 | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
veh-kih-PEHR
- phraseyour reading level
veh-kih-PEHR ba-a-DO
- clause
veh-kih-PEHR ba-a-DO oo-be-AD BEI-to oo-be-AD khol-ke-HAL yis-ra-EL
- sentence
veh-KHOL-a-DAM loh-yih-YEH be-O-hel mo-ED be-vo-OH le-kha-PER ba-KO-desh ad-TSE-to veh-kih-PEHR ba-a-DO oo-be-AD BEI-to oo-be-AD khol-ke-HAL yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
The clause vechipper ba’ado ū-bə-ʿad bēto ū-bə-ʿad kol-kehal yisra’el {וְכִפֵּר בַּעֲדוֹ וּבְעַד בֵּיתוֹ וּבְעַד כָּל־קְהַ֥ל יִשְׂרָאֵל | və-ḵip-pēr ba-ʿa-ḏō ū-bə-ʿad bēṯō ū-bə-ʿad kāl-qə-hāl yiś-rā-ʾēl} ‘and he shall make atonement for himself, his household, and all the congregation of Israel’ uses the repeated preposition be-‘ad to mark distributive scope, emphasizing movement from individual to corporate atonement. The English rendering preserves this sequence and distributive repetition to convey the ritual’s legal structure and theological emphasis on representative atonement.
Root and etymology
p-r-rp-r-r
“bull”
In context — Leviticus 16:17
And no person shall be in the tent of meeting when he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he comes out, and he shall make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 16:17:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Leviticus 16:17, so the Hebrew word וְכִפֶּ֤ר (vehkihpehr) 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.16.17.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.16.17.W9.S1) and character.