Leviticus 21:13:2Lev.21.13.W2TAB
אִשָּׁ֥ה
ishshah
“a wife”
- Transliteration
- ish-SHAH
- Extended
- ish-SHAAH
- IPA
- /ʔiʃˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a wife
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ish-SHAH
- phraseyour reading level
ish-SHAH vi-veh-too-LEH-hah
- sentence
veh-HOO ish-SHAH vi-veh-too-LEH-hah yik-KAKH
Exegesis
The noun ishah {אִשָּׁה | ʾiš-sāh} appears next and is immediately qualified by the construct phrase bivtuleha {בִבְתוּלֶיהָ | bə-ṯə-ṯū-lē-hā} ‘in her virginity’, specifying the required status of the object.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph-shin-heh
“woman, wife”
In context — Leviticus 21:13
And he shall take a woman in her virginity as a wife.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 21:13:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Leviticus 21:13, so the Hebrew word אִשָּׁ֥ה (ishshah) 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.21.13.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.21.13.W2.S1) and character.