Leviticus 19:9:4Lev.19.9.W4TAB
לֹ֧א
lo
“not”
- Transliteration
- LO
- Extended
- LOH
- IPA
- /loː/
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 te-kha-LEH
- clause
oo-veh-kuts-reh-KHEM et-ke-TSIR ar-tshe-KHEM LO te-kha-LEH pe-AHT sahd-KHA lik-TSOR
- 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 negative particle lo {לֹא | lōʾ} ‘not’ precedes the qal imperfect t’khalleh {תְכַלֶּה | tə-ḵallêh} ‘you shall finish’, creating a prohibition against exhaustive harvesting.
In the second clause the vav-conjunction ve-leket {וְלֶקֶט | wə-leq-eṭ} ‘and gleanings’ with construct k’tsir-kha {קְצִירְךָ | qǝ-ṣîr-ḵā} ‘of your harvest’, followed by lo t’laket {לֹא תְלַקֵּט | lōʾ tə-lak-kēṭ} ‘you shall not gather’, employs a piel imperfect to emphasize deliberate collection. The parallel negatives reinforce the injunction, and English renderings preserve the conditional ‘when you reap’ and the paired imperatives ‘shall not finish’ … ‘shall not gather’.
Root and etymology
k-l-ʾ
“to restrain, separate”
In context — Leviticus 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 19:9:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 19:9, so the Hebrew word לֹ֧א (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.19.9.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.9.W4.S1) and character.