Leviticus 19:18:5Lev.19.18.W5PAT
וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥
veahavta
“love”
- Transliteration
- ve-a-hav-TA
- Extended
- veh-ah-hav-TAA
- IPA
- /və.ʔa.havˈtaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- love
- French
- aimer
- Spanish
- amar
- Portuguese
- amar
- German
- lieben
- Russian
- любить
- Arabic-Simplified
- أحب
- Hindi
- प्रेम करना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 爱
- Korean
- 사랑하라
- Indonesian
- mengasihi
- Bengali
- ভালোবাসা
- Tagalog
- umibig
- Swahili
- kupenda
- Amharic
- ውደድ
- Yoruba
- fẹ́
- Igbo
- ịhụ n'anya
- Twi
- dɔ
- Ewe
- lɔ̃
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 | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
ve-a-hav-TA
- phraseyour reading level
ve-a-hav-TA le-re-a-KHA
- clause
lo-tik-KOM ve-lo-tit-TOR et-be-NEI am-ME-kha ve-a-hav-TA le-re-a-KHA ka-MO-kha
- sentence
lo-tik-KOM ve-lo-tit-TOR et-be-NEI am-ME-kha ve-a-hav-TA le-re-a-KHA ka-MO-kha a-NI Ye-ho-VAH
In context — Leviticus 19:18
not take vengeance not bear a grudge sons of your people love your neighbor as yourself I LORD
About this coordinate
Leviticus 19:18:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 19:18, so the Hebrew word וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ (veahavta) 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.19.18.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.18.W5.S1) and character.