Leviticus 20:17:12Lev.20.17.W12PAT
ה֔וּא
hu
“it is”
- Transliteration
- HU
- Extended
- HOO
- IPA
- /ˈhuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- it is
- French
- c'est
- Spanish
- es
- Portuguese
- é
- German
- es ist
- Russian
- это
- Arabic-Simplified
- هو
- Hindi
- यह है
- Chinese-Simplified
- 就是
- Korean
- 그것이다
- Indonesian
- itulah
- Bengali
- এটি
- Tagalog
- iyon
- Swahili
- ndiyo
- Amharic
- እሱ ነው
- Yoruba
- òun ni
- Igbo
- ọ bụ ya
- Twi
- ɛyɛ
- Ewe
- enye
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
HU
- phraseyour reading level
KHE-sed HU
- clause
ve-ISH a-SHER-yi-KAKH ET-a-KHO-to bat-a-VIV OH bat-i-MO ve-ra-AH ET-er-va-TAH ve-HEE-tir-EH ET-er-va-TO KHE-sed HU ve-nikh-RE-tu le-ey-NEY be-NEY am-MAM
- sentence
ve-ISH a-SHER-yi-KAKH ET-a-KHO-to bat-a-VIV OH bat-i-MO ve-ra-AH ET-er-va-TAH ve-HEE-tir-EH ET-er-va-TO KHE-sed HU ve-nikh-RE-tu le-ey-NEY be-NEY am-MAM er-VAT a-KHO-to gil-LAH a-vo-NO yi-SA
In context — Leviticus 20:17
and a man who takes his sister daughter of his father or daughter of his mother and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness disgrace it is and they shall be cut off in the sight of children of their people nakedness of his sister he uncovered his iniquity he shall bear
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:17:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Leviticus 20:17, so the Hebrew word ה֔וּא (hu) 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.20.17.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.17.W12.S1) and character.