Deuteronomy 22:24:7Deut.22.24.W7TAB
וָמֵ֑תוּ
vametu
“and they shall die”
- Transliteration
- va-ME-tu
- Extended
- vah-MEH-too
- IPA
- /vaˈmeːtuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and they shall die
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-ME-tu
- sentence
ve-ho-tse-E-tem et-shne-HEM el-SHA-ar ha-IR u-se-kal-TEM-o-TAM ba-a-va-NIM va-ME-tu et-ha-na-a-RA al-de-VAR a-SHER lo-tsa-a-ka ba-IR ve-ha-ISH al-de-VAR a-SHER-i-NA et-E-shet re-E-hu u-vi-ar-TA ha-RA mi-kir-be-KHA
Exegesis
This verse presents a compound legal mandate, opening with vehotsetem {וְהוֹצֵאתֶם | vǝ-hō-ṣḗ-tem} ‘and you shall bring out’ (Hiphil perfect), followed by uskaltem {וּסְקַלְתֶּם | û-sə-ḵal-têm} ‘and you shall stone’ (Qal perfect), and vamētu {וָמֵתוּ | wā-mê-tû} ‘and they shall die’ (Qal perfect).
In context — Deuteronomy 22:24
And you shall bring out the two of them to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die—the young woman on account of the matter that she did not cry out in the city, and the man on account of the matter that he violated the wife of his neighbor. And you shall purge the evil from your midst.
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 22:24:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Deuteronomy 22:24, so the Hebrew word וָמֵ֑תוּ (vametu) 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.22.24.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.24.W7.S1) and character.