Leviticus 3:2:5Lev.3.2.W5TAB
וּשְׁחָט֕וֹ
ooshehkhatoh
“slaughter it”
- Transliteration
- oo-sheh-kha-TOH
- Extended
- oo-sheh-kha-TOH
- IPA
- /uʃəħaˈtoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- slaughter it
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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Word in context
- word
oo-sheh-kha-TOH
- clause
veh-SA-makh ya-DO al-ROSH kohr-ba-NOH oo-sheh-kha-TOH PE-takh O-hehl mo-ED
- sentence
veh-SA-makh ya-DO al-ROSH kohr-ba-NOH oo-sheh-kha-TOH PE-takh O-hehl mo-ED veh-zor-KOO beh-NEE a-ha-RON ha-ko-ha-NIM et-ha-DAM al-ham-miz-BE-akh sa-VIV
Exegesis
This verse presents a tightly ordered ritual sequence marked by three vav-consecutive perfect verbs: vesamakh {וְסָמַךְ | wə-sā-makh} ‘and he shall lay’, ushekhato {וּשְׁחָטוֹ | wə-šə-ḥā-ṯō} ‘and he shall slaughter it’, and vezarku {וְזָרְקוּ | wə-zār-qū} ‘and they shall throw’.
In context — Leviticus 3:2
And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, then slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron , the priests shall splash the blood on the altar all around.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 3:2:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 3:2, so the Hebrew word וּשְׁחָט֕וֹ (ooshehkhatoh) 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.3.2.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.3.2.W5.S1) and character.