Leviticus 20:6:1Lev.20.6.W1TAB
וְהַנֶּ֗פֶשׁ
vehanefesh
“and the person”
- Transliteration
- ve-ha-NE-fesh
- Extended
- veh-hah-NEH-fesh
- IPA
- /və.hanˈne.feʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and the person
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 | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ha-NE-fesh
- clause
ve-ha-NE-fesh a-SHER tif-NEH el-ha-O-vot ve-el-ha-YID-deh-o-NEEM liz-NOT a-kha-REE-hem
- sentence
ve-ha-NE-fesh a-SHER tif-NEH el-ha-O-vot ve-el-ha-YID-deh-o-NEEM liz-NOT a-kha-REE-hem ve-na-ta-TI et-pa-NAI ba-NE-fesh ha-HI ve-hiKH-ra-TI o-TO mi-KE-rev am-MO
Exegesis
The verse begins with ve-hannefesh {וְהַנֶּ֗פֶשׁ | wə-han-nĕ-p̄eš} ‘the soul’, serving as the legal subject, followed by the relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘who’ and the imperfect tipneh {תִּפְנֶה | tip-p̄ə-nēh} ‘turns’ indicating potential action.
Root and etymology
Rootnun-peh-shin
“breath; life-being”
In context — Leviticus 20:6
And the soul who turns to the mediums and the spiritists, to prostitute themselves after them, I will set my face against that soul and will cut it off from the midst of its people.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:6:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 20:6, so the Hebrew word וְהַנֶּ֗פֶשׁ (vehanefesh) 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.20.6.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.6.W1.S1) and character.