Leviticus 20:6:4Lev.20.6.W4TAB
אֶל־הָֽאֹבֹת֙
elhaovot
“to the mediums”
- Transliteration
- el-ha-O-vot
- Extended
- el-hah-OH-voht
- IPA
- /ʔel.haːˈʔoː.vot/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the mediums
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Word in context
- word
el-ha-O-vot
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER tif-NEH el-ha-O-vot
- 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 coordinated prepositional phrase el-ha-ovot ve-el-ha-yiddo‘nim {אֶל־הָאֹבֹת וְאֶל־הַיִּדְּעֹנִים | ʾel hā-ʾō-ḇōṯ wə-ʾel ha-yid-də-ʿō-nîm} highlights forbidden practitioners.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph-vav-bet
“familiar spirits; necromancy”
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 20:6:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 20:6, so the Hebrew word אֶל־הָֽאֹבֹת֙ (elhaovot) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.6.W4.S1) and character.