Leviticus 20:25:8Lev.20.25.W8TAB
וְלֹֽא־תְשַׁקְּצ֨וּ
veloteshaktsu
“and do not defile”
- Transliteration
- ve-LO-tesh-ak-TSU
- Extended
- veh-LOH-tesh-ak-TSOO
- IPA
- /wəloː.təʃakˈtsuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and do not defile
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 | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-LO-tesh-ak-TSU
- phraseyour reading level
ve-LO-tesh-ak-TSU et-naf-sho-TEI-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 jussive velo-teshaktsu {וְלֹֽא־תְשַׁקְּצ֨וּ | wə·lō·tə·šaq·qə·ṣū} ‘and you shall not make detestable’ intensifies the prohibition by linking it to personal identity via et-nafshotekhem {אֶת־נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶ֜ם | ’et·nap̄·šō·ṯê·ḵem} ‘your souls’ and successive circumstantial clauses babhemah {בַּבְּהֵמָ֣ה | ba·bĕ·hē·māh}, uvaof {וּבָע֗וֹף | ū·bā·‘ōp̄}, and uvekhol {וּבְכֹל֙ | ū·bə·kōl} ‘and by all’.
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 20:25:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Leviticus 20:25, so the Hebrew word וְלֹֽא־תְשַׁקְּצ֨וּ (veloteshaktsu) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.25.W8.S1) and character.