Leviticus 18:6:8Lev.18.6.W8PAT
עֶרְוָ֑ה
ervaah
“nakedness”
- Transliteration
- er-VAAH
- Extended
- ehr-VAAH
- IPA
- /ʕɛrˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- nakedness
- French
- nudité
- Spanish
- desnudez
- Portuguese
- nudez
- German
- Nacktheit
- Russian
- нагота
- Arabic-Simplified
- عُرْي
- Hindi
- नग्नता
- Chinese-Simplified
- 赤裸
- Korean
- 벌거벗음
- Indonesian
- ketelanjangan
- Bengali
- নগ্নতা
- Tagalog
- kahubaran
- Swahili
- uchi
- Amharic
- እርቃን
- Yoruba
- ìhòòhò
- Igbo
- ịgba ọtọ
- Twi
- adagya
- Ewe
- gbɔgbɔe
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| 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
er-VAAH
- phraseyour reading level
le-gal-LOT er-VAAH
- clause
ISH ISH el-kol-she-ER be-sa-RO LO tik-re-VOO le-gal-LOT er-VAAH
- sentence
ISH ISH el-kol-she-ER be-sa-RO LO tik-re-VOO le-gal-LOT er-VAAH a-NI Ye-ho-VAH
In context — Leviticus 18:6
any man any man not approach to any close relative of his flesh uncover nakedness I LORD
About this coordinate
Leviticus 18:6:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Leviticus 18:6, so the Hebrew word עֶרְוָ֑ה (ervaah) 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.18.6.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.18.6.W8.S1) and character.