Leviticus 21:9:11Lev.21.9.W11TAB
תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃
tissaref
“shall be burned”
- Transliteration
- tis-sa-REF
- Extended
- tihs-sah-REHF
- IPA
- /tis.saˈreːf/
Meaning by language
- English
- shall be burned
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Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Pe Sofit | final form of Pe — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
tis-sa-REF
- clause
et-a-VI-ha HI me-kha-LE-let ba-ESH tis-sa-REF
- sentence
u-VAT ISH ko-HEN KI te-KHEL liz-NOT et-a-VI-ha HI me-kha-LE-let ba-ESH tis-sa-REF
Exegesis
The result clause opens with the prepositional phrase ba-esh {בָּאֵשׁ | bā-ʾēš} ‘with fire’ followed by the niphal imperfect tissaref {תִּשָּׂרֵף | tiš-ṣā-rēp̄} ‘she shall be burned’, expressing passive judgment. This structure highlights the conditional cause-and-effect pattern, framing the defilement as ongoing breach (piel participle) and the future punitive response (niphal imperfect).
Root and etymology
s-r-pshin-resh-pe
“to burn”
In context — Leviticus 21:9
And the daughter of any priest, if she begins to prostitute , she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 21:9:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Leviticus 21:9, so the Hebrew word תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃ (tissaref) 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.21.9.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.21.9.W11.S1) and character.