Leviticus 20:22:4Lev.20.22.W4TAB
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם
vaaseetem
“do”
- Transliteration
- va-a-SEE-TEM
- Extended
- vah-ah-SEE-TEM
- IPA
- /va.ʕa.siːˈtɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- do
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
va-a-SEE-TEM
- clause
oo-sheh-mar-TEM et-KOL-KHOO-koh-TAI veh-et-KOL-mish-pa-TAI va-a-SEE-TEM oh-TAM
- sentence
oo-sheh-mar-TEM et-KOL-KHOO-koh-TAI veh-et-KOL-mish-pa-TAI va-a-SEE-TEM oh-TAM veh-LOH-ta-KEE et-KHEM ha-A-RETS a-SHER a-NI meh-VEE et-KHEM sham-MAH la-SHE-vet BAH
Exegesis
Hebrew uses vav-consecutive in ushmartem {וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם | ū-šəmár-tēm} ‘and you shall keep’ and va-asitem {וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם | wa-ʿăśīṯēm} ‘and you shall do’ to sequence the obligations.
In context — Leviticus 20:22
So you shall keep all my statutes and all my judgments , and you shall do them, so that the land will not vomit you out when I bring you there to live.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:22:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 20:22, so the Hebrew word וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם (vaaseetem) 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.20.22.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.22.W4.S1) and character.