Leviticus 9:13:5Lev.9.13.W5TAB
וְאֶת־הָרֹ֑אשׁ
vehehthahrosh
“and the head”
- Transliteration
- veh-EHT-hah-ROSH
- Extended
- veh-EHT-hah-ROHSH
- IPA
- /və.ʔet.ha.ˈroːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and the head
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-EHT-hah-ROSH
- clause
veh-EHT-hah-oh-LAH him-TSI-oo eh-LAV li-ne-ta-KHE-hah veh-EHT-hah-ROSH
- sentence
veh-EHT-hah-oh-LAH him-TSI-oo eh-LAV li-ne-ta-KHE-hah veh-EHT-hah-ROSH vah-yak-TER al-ham-miz-BE-akh
Exegesis
The coordinated object ve’et-ha-rosh {וְאֶת־הָרֹ֑אשׁ | wə-ʾeṯ-hā-rō-ʾaš} ‘and the head’ completes the offering’s components.
Root and etymology
ר־א־ש
“head, chief”
In context — Leviticus 9:13
And they presented the burnt offering to him piece by piece, together with the head, and he burned them on the altar .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 9:13:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 9:13, so the Hebrew word וְאֶת־הָרֹ֑אשׁ (vehehthahrosh) 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.9.13.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.9.13.W5.S1) and character.