Leviticus 19:33:5Lev.19.33.W5TAB
לֹ֥א
lo
“not”
- Transliteration
- LO
- Extended
- LOH
- IPA
- /ˈloː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
LO
- phraseyour reading level
LO toh-NOO
- clause
LO toh-NOO o-TO
- sentence
veh-khee-yah-GUR it-teh-KHA GER beh-ar-tseh-KHEM LO toh-NOO o-TO
Exegesis
The apodosis begins with the negator lo {לֹא | lō}, immediately preceding the Qal imperfect tonu {תוֹנוּ | tō-nû} ‘you shall mistreat,’ and the object pronoun oto {אֹתוֹ | ʾō-tō} ‘him’ marks the protected party. English shifts from Hebrew VSO order to SVO, inserts the indefinite article before sojourner/foreigner, and renders the Hebrew imperfect as English future in the formal and as an imperative prohibition in the dynamic, thereby preserving the conditional legal structure and emphasizing communal responsibility.
Root and etymology
k-l-ʾ
“to restrain, separate”
In context — Leviticus 19:33
And when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 19:33:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 19:33, so the Hebrew word לֹ֥א (lo) 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.19.33.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.33.W5.S1) and character.