Leviticus 23:28:12Lev.23.28.W12TAB

עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם

aleekhem

upon you

Transliteration
a-LEE-khem
Extended
ah-LEE-khem
IPA
/ʕaˈleː.xɛm/

Meaning by language

English
upon you

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Result
עֲ + לֵי + כֶ֔ם
a + lee + khem
aleekhem

Alphabet Analysis

Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Lamedl as in law
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Kafk with dagesh; kh without
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-LEE-khem

  2. phraseyour reading level

    le-KHA-PER a-LEE-khem

  3. clause

    KI YOM kih-POO-RIM HU le-KHA-PER a-LEE-khem lif-NEE Ye-ho-VAH eh-lo-HEE-khem

  4. sentence

    ve-KHOL-meh-la-KHAH LO ta-a-SOO be-E-TSEM ha-YOM ha-ZEH KI YOM kih-POO-RIM HU le-KHA-PER a-LEE-khem lif-NEE Ye-ho-VAH eh-lo-HEE-khem

Exegesis

The infinitive le-ḥap̄pēr ’ălêkhem {לְכַפֵּר עֲלֵיכֶם | lə-ḥap-pēr ʿa-lê-ḵem} ‘to make atonement for you’ expresses purpose, and the prepositional phrase lifnê yəhōwāh ’ĕlōḥê-khem {לִפְנֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם | li-p̄nê yə-hō-wāh ʾĕ-lō-ḥê-ḵem} ‘before the LORD your God’ locates the ritual within the divine presence, linking the covenant name with the divine title.

In contextLeviticus 23:28

And you shall not do any work on the very day , because it is the Day of Atonements, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God .

About this coordinate

Leviticus 23:28:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Leviticus 23:28, so the Hebrew word עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם (aleekhem) 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.23.28.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.23.28.W12.S1) and character.