Leviticus 19:27:4Lev.19.27.W4TAB
רֹאשְׁכֶ֑ם
roshkhem
“your heads”
- Transliteration
- rosh-KHEM
- Extended
- rohsh-KHEM
- IPA
- /roːʃ.ˈxɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- your heads
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
rosh-KHEM
- clause
LO tak-KI-fu pe-AT rosh-KHEM
- sentence
LO tak-KI-fu pe-AT rosh-KHEM ve-LO tash-KHEET ET pe-AT ze-ka-NE-kha
Exegesis
The first uses the Piel imperfect verb takkifu {תַקִּפוּ | ṭaqqîp̄ū} (‘you shall round’) in second person masculine plural, predicated on the construct phrase pe'at roshechem {פְּאַת רֹאשְׁכֶם | peʾaṯ rōʾšəḵem} (‘corner of your head’).
Root and etymology
א-שaleph-shin
“fire”
In context — Leviticus 19:27
You shall not round the corners of your head, and you shall not destroy the corners of your beard.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 19:27:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 19:27, so the Hebrew word רֹאשְׁכֶ֑ם (roshkhem) 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.19.27.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.27.W4.S1) and character.