Leviticus 21:24:4Lev.21.24.W4TAB
וְאֶל־בָּנָ֑יו
vehehlbanav
“and to his sons”
- Transliteration
- veh-ehl-ba-NAV
- Extended
- veh-ehl-bah-NAAV
- IPA
- /və.ʔɛl.baˈnav/
Meaning by language
- English
- and to his sons
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 | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-ehl-ba-NAV
- clause
va-yed-da-BER mo-SHEH ehl-a-ha-RON veh-ehl-ba-NAV
- sentence
va-yed-da-BER mo-SHEH ehl-a-ha-RON veh-ehl-ba-NAV veh-ehl-kohl-beh-NEE yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
A triad of coordinated prepositional phrases introduced by el {אֶל־ | ʾel} ‘to’ and ve-el {וְאֶל־ | wə-ʾel} ‘and to’ specifies the recipients in concentric circles: Aharon {אַהֲרֹ֖ן | a-ha-ron} ‘Aaron’, banav {בָּנָ֑יו | ba-nav} ‘his sons’, and the broader assembly kol benei Yisrael {כָּל־בְּנֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל | kol bə-nei yis-ra-el} ‘all the sons of Israel’. The construct chain kol + benei functions as a distributive quantifier. English rendering uses coordinated objects to preserve the Hebrew’s sequential emphasis from priestly family to the entire community.
Root and etymology
ב־נ־יbet-nun-yod
“to build, establish”
In context — Leviticus 21:24
Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 21:24:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 21:24, so the Hebrew word וְאֶל־בָּנָ֑יו (vehehlbanav) 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.21.24.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.21.24.W4.S1) and character.