Leviticus 20:25:16Lev.20.25.W16TAB
אֲשֶׁר־הִבְדַּ֥לְתִּי
asherhivdalti
“set apart”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER-hiv-dal-TI
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR-hiv-dahl-TEE
- IPA
- /ʔaˈʃɛr.hiv.dalˈtiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- set apart
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER-hiv-dal-TI
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER-hiv-dal-TI la-KHEM
- clause
ve-LO-tesh-ak-TSU et-naf-sho-TEI-khem bab-be-he-MAA u-va-OF uv-KOL a-SHER tir-MOS ha-a-da-MAH a-SHER-hiv-dal-TI la-KHEM le-tam-ME
- sentence
veh-hiv-dal-TEM BEIN-ha-be-he-MA hat-te-ho-RA lat-te-me-AH u-BEIN-ha-OF hat-ta-ME lat-ta-HOR ve-LO-tesh-ak-TSU et-naf-sho-TEI-khem bab-be-he-MAA u-va-OF uv-KOL a-SHER tir-MOS ha-a-da-MAH a-SHER-hiv-dal-TI la-KHEM le-tam-ME
Exegesis
The final relative clause asher-hivdalti {אֲשֶׁר־הִבְדַּ֥לְתִּי | ’ă·šer·hib·dal·tî} ‘which I have separated’ reasserts divine initiative, creating a chiastic structure that underscores the theological centrality of ritual differentiation.
Root and etymology
b-d-lbet-dalet-lamed
“to divide, separate”
In context — Leviticus 20:25
And you shall separate between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. And you shall not make your souls detestable by any animal or by any bird or by anything that crawls on the ground, those which I have set apart for you for uncleanness.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:25:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Leviticus 20:25, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר־הִבְדַּ֥לְתִּי (asherhivdalti) 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.20.25.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.25.W16.S1) and character.