Leviticus 16:21:7Lev.16.21.W7TAB
הַשָּׂעִיר֮
hasair
“the goat”
- Transliteration
- ha-sa-IR
- Extended
- hah-sa-EER
- IPA
- /ha.saˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the goat
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
ha-sa-IR
- phraseyour reading level
AL ROSH ha-sa-IR
- clause
ve-sa-MAKH a-ha-RON et-SHTEI ya-DAV AL ROSH ha-sa-IR ha-KHAI veh-hit-va-DAH a-LAV et-kol-a-vo-NOT be-NEI yis-ra-EL veh-et-kol-pish-EI-HEM le-KOL-khat-to-TAM
- sentence
ve-sa-MAKH a-ha-RON et-SHTEI ya-DAV AL ROSH ha-sa-IR ha-KHAI veh-hit-va-DAH a-LAV et-kol-a-vo-NOT be-NEI yis-ra-EL veh-et-kol-pish-EI-HEM le-KOL-khat-to-TAM veh-na-TAN o-TAM al-ROSH ha-sa-IR veh-shil-LAKH be-yad-EESH it-TI ha-mid-ba-RAH
Exegesis
The pair ha-saʿir ha-hay {הַשָּׂעִיר הַחַי | ha-sā-ʿîr ha-ḥay} ‘the live goat’ distinguishes it from the slaughtered goat.
The prepositional phrase al-rosh ha-saʿir {עַל־רֹאשׁ הַשָּׂעִיר | ʿal-rōš ha-sā-ʿîr} binds the sins to the scapegoat’s head.
Root and etymology
ש־ע־ר
“goat”
In context — Leviticus 16:21
And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall put them on the goat’s head. Then he shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 16:21:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Leviticus 16:21, so the Hebrew word הַשָּׂעִיר֮ (hasair) 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.16.21.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.16.21.W7.S1) and character.