Leviticus 18:25:8Lev.18.25.W8TAB
אֶת־יֹשְׁבֶֽיהָ׃
etyoshveya
“its inhabitants”
- Transliteration
- et-yosh-VE-ya
- Extended
- et-yohsh-VEH-YAA
- IPA
- /ʔɛt.joʃ.ˈvɛ.jaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- its inhabitants
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
et-yosh-VE-ya
- clause
va-ta-KI ha-A-rets et-yosh-VE-ya
- sentence
va-tit-MA ha-A-rets va-ef-KOD a-vo-NAH a-LE-ya va-ta-KI ha-A-rets et-yosh-VE-ya
Exegesis
The second Vav-consecutive Hiphil verb vattāqī {וַתָּקִ֥א | waṯ·tā·qīʾ} ‘and it vomited out’ personifies the land, expelling et-yōšēvēhā {אֶת־יֹשְׁבֶֽיהָ | ʾet·yō·še·wē·hā} ‘its inhabitants’.
Root and etymology
RootYod-Shin-Bet
“dwell, inhabit”
In context — Leviticus 18:25
And the land became defiled, and I attended to its iniquity upon it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 18:25:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Leviticus 18:25, so the Hebrew word אֶת־יֹשְׁבֶֽיהָ׃ (etyoshveya) 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.18.25.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.18.25.W8.S1) and character.