Leviticus 19:12:6Lev.19.12.W6TAB
אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ
elohekha
“your God”
- Transliteration
- e-lo-HE-kha
- Extended
- eh-loh-HEH-kha
- IPA
- /ʔɛloˈheːxa/
Meaning by language
- English
- your God
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Word in context
- word
e-lo-HE-kha
- phraseyour reading level
et-SHEM e-lo-HE-kha
- clause
veh-khi-lal-TA et-SHEM e-lo-HE-kha a-NI ye-ho-VAH
- 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 construct form ʾĕ-lō-hê-kā {אֱלֹהֶיךָ | ʾĕ-lō-hê-kā} ‘your God’ indicates possession, and the concluding nominal clause ʾănî Yə-hō-wāh {אֲנִי יְהוָה | ʾănî Yə-hō-wāh} ‘I am the LORD’ asserts divine identity. The English combines the prohibitions into one flowing sentence to reflect parallelism, captures the intensive Piel sense with “profane,” and preserves the emphatic copula.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph-lamed-chet
“God”
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 19:12:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Leviticus 19:12, so the Hebrew word אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ (elohekha) 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.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.12.W6.S1) and character.