Leviticus 21:7:6Lev.21.7.W6TAB
וְאִשָּׁ֛ה
veihshah
“and a woman”
- Transliteration
- ve-ih-SHAH
- Extended
- veh-ih-SHAAH
- IPA
- /və.ʔiʃ.ˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and a woman
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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 | |
| 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
ve-ih-SHAH
- clause
ih-SHAH zo-NAH va-kha-la-LAH LO yi-KA-KHU ve-ih-SHAH ge-ru-SHAH meh-ih-SHAH LO yi-KA-KHU
- sentence
ih-SHAH zo-NAH va-kha-la-LAH LO yi-KA-KHU ve-ih-SHAH ge-ru-SHAH meh-ih-SHAH LO yi-KA-KHU KEE-kah-DOSH HU leh-eh-lo-HAAV
Exegesis
The second prohibition repeats lo yik-kā-ḥû and applies to wə-ʾiš-šāh gə-rû-šāh mē-ʾîš-šâh {וְאִשָּׁה גְּרוּשָׁה מֵאִישָׁהּ | wə-ʾiš-šāh gə-rû-šāh mē-ʾîš-šâh}, emphasizing exclusion of a divorced woman by means of the prepositional suffix.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph-shin-heh
“woman, wife”
In context — Leviticus 21:7
They must not take a wife who is a prostitute or a profaned woman; nor shall they take a divorced woman from her husband, because he is holy to his God .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 21:7:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Leviticus 21:7, so the Hebrew word וְאִשָּׁ֛ה (veihshah) 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.21.7.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.21.7.W6.S1) and character.