Numbers 5:2:4Num.5.2.W4TAB
וִֽישַׁלְּחוּ֙
vishalkhu
“and they shall send out”
- Transliteration
- vi-shal-KHU
- Extended
- vee-shal-LEH-khu
- IPA
- /viʃal.ləˈħuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they shall send out
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
vi-shal-KHU
- clause
TSA-v ET-be-NEI yis-ra-EL vi-shal-KHU min-ha-ma-KHA-neh kol-tsa-RU-a ve-KOL-zav
- sentence
TSA-v ET-be-NEI yis-ra-EL vi-shal-KHU min-ha-ma-KHA-neh kol-tsa-RU-a ve-KOL-zav ve-KOL ta-MEI la-NA-fesh
Exegesis
The vav-consecutive in veyishalkhu {וִֽישַׁלְּחוּ | wî-šal-lə-ḥū} ‘and they shall send away’ signals a sustained command sequence.
Root and etymology
shin-lamed-chetshin-lamed-ḥet
“to send, dispatch”
In context — Numbers 5:2
Command the sons of Israel, and let them send away from the camp every leper and everyone with a discharge , and everyone unclean because of a dead body.
About this coordinate
Numbers 5:2:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 5:2, so the Hebrew word וִֽישַׁלְּחוּ֙ (vishalkhu) 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.5.2.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.5.2.W4.S1) and character.