Leviticus 25:30:1Lev.25.30.W1TAB

וְאִ֣ם

veim

and if

Transliteration
ve-IM
Extended
veh-EEM
IPA
/vəˈʔim/

Meaning by language

English
and if

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Result
וְ + אִ֣ם
ve + im
veim

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-IM

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-IM lo-yi-ga-EL

  3. clause

    ve-IM lo-yi-ga-EL ad-me-LOT LO sha-NA te-MEE-MAH ve-KAM ha-BA-yit a-SHER-ba-IR a-SHER-lo LO kho-MA la-tse-mi-TOOT la-ko-NE o-TO le-do-ro-TAIYV

  4. sentence

    ve-IM lo-yi-ga-EL ad-me-LOT LO sha-NA te-MEE-MAH ve-KAM ha-BA-yit a-SHER-ba-IR a-SHER-lo LO kho-MA la-tse-mi-TOOT la-ko-NE o-TO le-do-ro-TAIYV LO ye-TSE ba-yo-VEL

Exegesis

The verse opens with the protasis introduced by ve’im {וְאִם | wə-ʾim} ‘and if,’ with the negated predicate lo-yigga’el {לֹא־יִגָּאֵל | lō-yiqqāʾēl} forming the conditional clause.

In contextLeviticus 25:30

And if the house is not redeemed before a full year has elapsed for its owner, then the house in the walled city shall be established permanently for the buyer and his generations, and it shall not be released in the Jubilee .

About this coordinate

Leviticus 25:30:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 25:30, so the Hebrew word וְאִ֣ם (veim) 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.25.30.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.25.30.W1.S1) and character.