Leviticus 20:10:1Lev.20.10.W1TAB
וְאִ֗ישׁ
veish
“And a man”
- Transliteration
- ve-ISH
- Extended
- veh-EESH
- IPA
- /vəˈʔiːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- And a man
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ISH
- clause
ve-ISH a-SHER yin-AF et-eh-SHET ISH a-SHER yin-AF et-eh-SHET reh-EH-hu
- sentence
ve-ISH a-SHER yin-AF et-eh-SHET ISH a-SHER yin-AF et-eh-SHET reh-EH-hu MOHT-yu-MAT ha-no-EF ve-ha-no-a-FET
Exegesis
The verse begins with ve’ish {וְאִישׁ | wə-ʾîš} ‘and a man’, introducing a generic subject, followed by the relative particle asher {אֲשֶׁר | ă-šer} ‘who’, which introduces the protasis.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph-yod-shin
“man, person”
In context — Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:10:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 20:10, so the Hebrew word וְאִ֗ישׁ (veish) 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.20.10.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.10.W1.S1) and character.