Deuteronomy 21:12:4Deut.21.12.W4PAT
וְגִלְּחָה֙
vehgilkha
“shave”
- Transliteration
- veh-gil-KHA
- Extended
- veh-gil-KHAA
- IPA
- /vəɣilˈħaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- shave
- French
- raser
- Spanish
- afeitar
- Portuguese
- raspar
- German
- rasieren
- Russian
- сбрить
- Arabic-Simplified
- تحلق
- Hindi
- मुंडाना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 剃
- Korean
- 밀다
- Indonesian
- mencukur
- Bengali
- মুণ্ডন করা
- Tagalog
- ahitin
- Swahili
- kunyoa
- Amharic
- መላጨት
- Yoruba
- fá
- Igbo
- ịkpụ
- Twi
- twitwa
- Ewe
- ɖi
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 | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
veh-gil-KHA
- clause
veh-gil-KHA et-ROH-shah veh-as-TAH et-tsip-par-NEH-hah
- sentence
va-ha-ve-TAH el-TOKH bee-TE-kha veh-gil-KHA et-ROH-shah veh-as-TAH et-tsip-par-NEH-hah
In context — Deuteronomy 21:12
bring her into the midst of your house shave her head trim her nails
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 21:12:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Deuteronomy 21:12, so the Hebrew word וְגִלְּחָה֙ (vehgilkha) 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 Deut.21.12.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.21.12.W4.S1) and character.