Leviticus 16:18:7Lev.16.18.W7TAB
וְלָקַ֞ח
velakakh
“and he will take”
- Transliteration
- ve-la-KAKH
- Extended
- veh-la-KAHKH
- IPA
- /wəlaˈkaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he will take
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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 | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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Word in context
- word
ve-la-KAKH
- clause
ve-la-KAKH mi-DAM ha-PAR u-mi-DAM ha-sa-EER ve-na-TAN al-KAR-not ham-miz-BEH-akh sa-VIV
- sentence
ve-ya-TSA el-ham-miz-BEH-akh a-SHER lihf-NEI-ye-ho-VAH ve-khi-PER a-LAV ve-la-KAKH mi-DAM ha-PAR u-mi-DAM ha-sa-EER ve-na-TAN al-KAR-not ham-miz-BEH-akh sa-VIV
Exegesis
The verse arranges the ritual steps through a series of vav-consecutive perfect verbs (veyatsa {וְיָצָ֗א | və-yā-ṣāʾ} ‘and he shall go out’, vekipper {וְכִפֶּ֣ר | və-ki-p̄er} ‘and he shall make atonement’, velakach {וְלָקַ֞ח | vĕ-lā-qaḥ} ‘and he shall take’, venatan {וְנָתַ֛ן | vĕ-nā-than} ‘and he shall put’).
Root and etymology
l-q-ḥl-q-ḥ
“to take”
In context — Leviticus 16:18
Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD , and he shall make atonement for it. He shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar all around.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 16:18:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Leviticus 16:18, so the Hebrew word וְלָקַ֞ח (velakakh) 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.16.18.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.16.18.W7.S1) and character.