Leviticus 19:25:1Lev.19.25.W1TAB
וּבַשָּׁנָ֣ה
oovahshanah
“and in the year”
- Transliteration
- oo-vah-sha-NAH
- Extended
- oo-vah-shah-NAAH
- IPA
- /u.va.ʃaˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and in the year
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
oo-vah-sha-NAH
- phraseyour reading level
oo-vah-sha-NAH ha-kha-mi-SHIT
- clause
oo-vah-sha-NAH ha-kha-mi-SHIT to-khe-LOO et-pir-YO leh-ho-SEEf la-KHEM te-vu-a-TO
- sentence
oo-vah-sha-NAH ha-kha-mi-SHIT to-khe-LOO et-pir-YO leh-ho-SEEf la-KHEM te-vu-a-TO a-NI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEE-KHEM
Exegesis
The verse opens with the temporal marker uvashanah {וּבַשָּׁנָ֣ה | ū-vaš-ša-nāh} ‘and in the year’, followed by the ordinal adjective ha-chamishit {הַחֲמִישִׁ֗ת | ha-ḥă-mî-šîṯ} ‘the fifth’, framing the fifth agricultural cycle.
Root and etymology
shin-nun-heshin-nun-he
“year, cycle”
In context — Leviticus 19:25
And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit to increase its yield for you. I am the LORD your God .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 19:25:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 19:25, so the Hebrew word וּבַשָּׁנָ֣ה (oovahshanah) 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.19.25.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.25.W1.S1) and character.