Numbers 19:20:1Num.19.20.W1TAB

וְאִ֤ישׁ

veish

And a man

Transliteration
ve-ISH
Extended
veh-EESH
IPA
/vəˈʔiːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
And a man

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Result
וְ + אִ֤ישׁ
ve + ish
veish

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
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-ISH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-ISH a-SHER-yit-MA

  3. clause

    ve-ISH a-SHER-yit-MA ve-LO yit-khat-TA ve-nikh-re-TA ha-NE-fesh ha-HU mit-TOkh ha-ka-HAL

  4. sentence

    ve-ISH a-SHER-yit-MA ve-LO yit-khat-TA ve-nikh-re-TA ha-NE-fesh ha-HU mit-TOkh ha-ka-HAL KI ET-mik-DASH Ye-ho-VAH ti-ME MEI nid-DA lo-zo-RAK a-LAV ta-ME HU

Exegesis

The verse opens with the conditional protasis ve'ish {וְאִישׁ | və-ʾîš} ‘and a man’ plus asher {אֲשֶׁר־ | ă-šer} ‘who,’ establishing the requirement.

In contextNumbers 19:20

And any man who becomes unclean and does not purify himself shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD ; the water of impurity was not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

About this coordinate

Numbers 19:20:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 19:20, so the Hebrew word וְאִ֤ישׁ (veish) 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 Num.19.20.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.19.20.W1.S1) and character.