Leviticus 22:8:2Lev.22.8.W2TAB
וּטְרֵפָ֛ה
ootrehfa
“or torn”
- Transliteration
- oo-treh-FA
- Extended
- oo-treh-FAA
- IPA
- /u.treː.ˈfaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- or torn
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
oo-treh-FA
- phraseyour reading level
ne-ve-LAH oo-treh-FA
- clause
ne-ve-LAH oo-treh-FA LO yo-a-KHAL leh-tah-me-ah-VAH
- sentence
ne-ve-LAH oo-treh-FA LO yo-a-KHAL leh-tah-me-ah-VAH a-NI Ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The verse opens with the coordinated nouns nevelah {נְבֵלָה | nə-ḇê-lāh} ‘carcass’ and utreifah {טְרֵפָה | ū-ṭre-p̄āh} ‘torn animal’, linked by the conjunction vav to enumerate two sources of ritual impurity.
Root and etymology
ṭ-r-ptet-resh-pe
“to tear, rend”
In context — Leviticus 22:8
He must not eat a carcass or a torn animal, so as not to become unclean by it. I am the LORD .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 22:8:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Leviticus 22:8, so the Hebrew word וּטְרֵפָ֛ה (ootrehfa) 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.22.8.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.22.8.W2.S1) and character.