Leviticus 22:5:7Lev.22.5.W7TAB
א֤וֹ
o
“or”
- Transliteration
- O
- Extended
- OH
- IPA
- /ˈʔoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- or
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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Word in context
- word
O
- phraseyour reading level
O ve-a-DAM
- clause
O ve-a-DAM a-SHER yit-ma-LO le-KHOL tum-a-TO
- sentence
O-ISH a-SHER yi-GA be-khol-SHEH-rets a-SHER yit-ma-LO O ve-a-DAM a-SHER yit-ma-LO le-KHOL tum-a-TO
Exegesis
The verse opens with the disjunctive conjunction o {אוֹ | ʾō} ‘or’, framing two parallel scenarios for ritual impurity.
The disjunctive o {אוֹ | ʾō} then introduces the second parallel scenario, with be-adam {בְאָדָם | bə-ʾā-dam} ‘with a person’ followed by a similar relative clause.
In context — Leviticus 22:5
Or a man who touches any crawling creature that imparts uncleanness to him, or one who comes into contact with a person who becomes unclean through any of his uncleanness .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 22:5:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Leviticus 22:5, so the Hebrew word א֤וֹ (o) 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.22.5.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.22.5.W7.S1) and character.