Leviticus 18:22:6Lev.18.22.W6TAB
תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה
toehvah
“abomination”
- Transliteration
- to-eh-VAH
- Extended
- toh-eh-VAA
- IPA
- /toʕeˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- abomination
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
to-eh-VAH
- clause
to-eh-VAH HI
- sentence
veh-et-za-KHAR LO tish-KAV mish-ke-VEE ish-SHAH to-eh-VAH HI
Exegesis
The final toʼevah hi {תּוֹעֵבָה הִוא | tô-ʾê-vāh hūʾ} uses the copular pronoun to assert categorical moral judgment, with toevah conveying strong cultic condemnation. The English rendering shifts to SVO while preserving the Hebrew’s thematic object prominence and idiomatic structure.
Root and etymology
t-ʿ-btav-ayin-bet
“abomination, detestation”
In context — Leviticus 18:22
And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 18:22:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Leviticus 18:22, so the Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה (toehvah) 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.18.22.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.18.22.W6.S1) and character.