Leviticus 22:9:5Lev.22.9.W5TAB

חֵ֔טְא

khet

sin

Transliteration
KHET
Extended
KHET
IPA
/ˈħeːt/

Meaning by language

English
sin

Alphabet Analysis

Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Tett — emphatic
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    KHET

  2. clause

    ve-sham-RU et-mish-mar-TI ve-LO-yis-U a-LAV KHET u-me-TU VO ki ye-khal-le-LOO-hu

  3. sentence

    ve-sham-RU et-mish-mar-TI ve-LO-yis-U a-LAV KHET u-me-TU VO ki ye-khal-le-LOO-hu a-NI Ye-ho-VAH me-kad-SHAM

Exegesis

The negative clause velo yis’u alav chet {וְלֹא־יִשְׂאוּ עָלָיו חֵטְא | wə-lō yiś-’û ’ă-lāy-w ḥē-ṭā} uses the imperfect yis’u ‘they will bear’ with the prepositional suffix alav and noun chet to describe bearing sin.

Root and etymology

ח־ט־אch-t-’

to miss, err

In contextLeviticus 22:9

And they shall keep My charge so that they do not bear sin upon it and die in it, because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

About this coordinate

Leviticus 22:9:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 22:9, so the Hebrew word חֵ֔טְא (khet) 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.22.9.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.22.9.W5.S1) and character.