Leviticus 22:9:5Lev.22.9.W5TAB
חֵ֔טְא
khet
“sin”
- Transliteration
- KHET
- Extended
- KHET
- IPA
- /ˈħeːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- sin
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
KHET
- 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
- 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 context — Leviticus 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.