Leviticus 20:16:1Lev.20.16.W1TAB
וְאִשָּׁ֗ה
vehishshah
“and a woman”
- Transliteration
- veh-ISH-SHAH
- Extended
- veh-IH-SHAAH
- IPA
- /vəʔiʃˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and a woman
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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 | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-ISH-SHAH
- clause
veh-ISH-SHAH a-SHER tik-RAV el-kol-be-he-MAH leh-riv-AH o-TAH veh-hah-rag-TAA et-hah-ish-SHAH veh-et-hab-beh-heh-MAAH
- sentence
veh-ISH-SHAH a-SHER tik-RAV el-kol-be-he-MAH leh-riv-AH o-TAH veh-hah-rag-TAA et-hah-ish-SHAH veh-et-hab-beh-heh-MAAH MOT yoo-ma-TOO deh-mei-HEM BAHM
Exegesis
The clause opens with the conjunction vav {וְ | wə} attached to ishah {אִשָּׁה | ’iš-šâh} ‘and a woman,’ linking it to the preceding legislation.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ־ה
“woman”
In context — Leviticus 20:16
And a woman who approaches any animal for mating with it shall be killed—both the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death; their blood is on them.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:16:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 20:16, so the Hebrew word וְאִשָּׁ֗ה (vehishshah) 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.20.16.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.16.W1.S1) and character.