Leviticus 19:9:1Lev.19.9.W1TAB

וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶם֙

oovehkutsrehkhem

when you reap

Transliteration
oo-veh-kuts-reh-KHEM
Extended
oo-veh-kuts-reh-KHEM
IPA
/u.və.quts.rɛˈxɛm/

Meaning by language

English
when you reap

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וּֽ + בְ + קֻצְ + רְ + כֶם֙
oo + veh + kuts + reh + khem
oovehkutsrehkhem

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Qofq — deep k, uvular
Qibbutsshort 'oo' as in food
Tsadets as in cats
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Kafk with dagesh; kh without
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    oo-veh-kuts-reh-KHEM

  2. clause

    oo-veh-kuts-reh-KHEM et-ke-TSIR ar-tshe-KHEM LO te-kha-LEH pe-AHT sahd-KHA lik-TSOR

  3. sentence

    oo-veh-kuts-reh-KHEM et-ke-TSIR ar-tshe-KHEM LO te-kha-LEH pe-AHT sahd-KHA lik-TSOR veh-LE-ket keh-TSIR-KHAA LO teh-la-KET

Exegesis

The verse opens with the vav-consecutive uv’kutsr’khem {וּבְקֻצְרְכֶם֙ | ū̆-bə-quṯ-ṣər-ḵêm} ‘and when you reap’, functioning as a temporal conditional clause.

Root and etymology

q-ts-rqof-tsade-resh

to reap

In contextLeviticus 19:9

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish the edge of your field, and you shall not gather the gleanings of your harvest.

About this coordinate

Leviticus 19:9:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 19:9, so the Hebrew word וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶם֙ (oovehkutsrehkhem) 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.19.9.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.9.W1.S1) and character.