Leviticus 18:12:5Lev.18.12.W5TAB
שְׁאֵ֥ר
sheer
“relative”
- Transliteration
- she-ER
- Extended
- sheh-EHR
- IPA
- /ʃəˈʔeːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- relative
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
she-ER
- phraseyour reading level
she-ER a-vi-KHA
- clause
she-ER a-vi-KHA HI
- sentence
er-VAT a-KHOT-a-vi-KHA LO te-gal-LEH she-ER a-vi-KHA HI
Exegesis
The appositive she’er-avikha {שְׁאֵ֥ר אָבִ֖יךָ | she!’er-ʾa·ḇî·ḵā} ‘flesh of your father’ functions as an emphatic clarification, and hi {הִֽוא | hî} serves as the copula. In translation, Hebrew construct chains are rendered with English possessives to preserve the legal structure, and the appositive is set off by a semicolon to reflect the explanatory force of the original syntax.
Root and etymology
shin-aleph-reshshin-aleph-resh
“flesh, remainder, kin”
In context — Leviticus 18:12
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is the flesh of your father.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 18:12:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 18:12, so the Hebrew word שְׁאֵ֥ר (sheer) 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.18.12.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.18.12.W5.S1) and character.