Leviticus 20:22:6Lev.20.22.W6TAB
וְלֹא־תָקִ֤יא
vehlohtakee
“not vomit out”
- Transliteration
- veh-LOH-ta-KEE
- Extended
- veh-LOH-tah-KEE
- IPA
- /və.loː.taˈqiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not vomit out
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-LOH-ta-KEE
- phraseyour reading level
veh-LOH-ta-KEE et-KHEM
- clause
veh-LOH-ta-KEE et-KHEM ha-A-RETS a-SHER a-NI meh-VEE et-KHEM sham-MAH la-SHE-vet BAH
- 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
The warning clause, introduced by ve-lo-taki {וְלֹא־תָקִ֤יא | wə-lōʾ-ṯā-qîʾ} ‘and shall not vomit’, personifies the land in a causative construction to underscore the severity of disobedience.
Root and etymology
ק־אk-a
“to vomit, expel”
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 20:22:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Leviticus 20:22, so the Hebrew word וְלֹא־תָקִ֤יא (vehlohtakee) 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.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.22.W6.S1) and character.