Leviticus 19:12:1Lev.19.12.W1TAB
וְלֹֽא־תִשָּׁבְע֥וּ
vehlohtishavehoo
“not swear”
- Transliteration
- veh-loh-ti-sha-veh-OO
- Extended
- veh-loh-ti-shah-veh-OO
- IPA
- /wəˈloː.tiʃ.ʃa.vəˈʕuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not swear
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-loh-ti-sha-veh-OO
- phraseyour reading level
veh-loh-ti-sha-veh-OO bish-MI
- clause
veh-loh-ti-sha-veh-OO bish-MI la-SHA-ker
- sentence
veh-loh-ti-sha-veh-OO bish-MI la-SHA-ker veh-khi-lal-TA et-SHEM e-lo-HE-kha a-NI ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The first prohibition begins with vav-lo {וְלֹא | wə-lōʾ} ‘and not’ plus the Qal imperfect tiš-šā-ḇə-ʿû {תִשָּׁבְעוּ | tiš-šā-ḇə-ʿû} ‘you shall swear,’ modified by the preposition biš-mî {בִּשְׁמִי | biš-mî} ‘by my name’ and the infinitive construct la-šā-qer {לַשָּׁקֶר | la-šā-qer} ‘to falsehood’ specifying manner.
The second flows in ve-ḥil-lal-tā {וְחִלַּלְתָּ | wə-ḥil-lal-tā} ‘and you shall profane,’ where the direct-object marker ʾeṯ {אֵת | ʾeṯ} foregrounds šēm {שֵׁם | šēm} ‘name’ as patient.
Root and etymology
Rootshin-bet-ʿayin
“to swear”
In context — Leviticus 19:12
And you shall not swear falsely by My name, nor shall you profane the name of your God . I am the LORD .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 19:12:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 19:12, so the Hebrew word וְלֹֽא־תִשָּׁבְע֥וּ (vehlohtishavehoo) 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.19.12.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.12.W1.S1) and character.