Ezekiel 18:15:13Ezek.18.15.W13TAB
טִמֵּֽא׃
timme
“he defiled”
- Transliteration
- tim-ME
- Extended
- tihm-MEH
- IPA
- /tˤimˈmeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- he defiled
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
tim-ME
- phraseyour reading level
LO tim-ME
- clause
et-E-shet re-E-hu LO tim-ME
- sentence
al-he-ha-RIM LO a-KHAL ve-e-NAV LO na-SA el-gil-lu-LE BET yis-ra-EL et-E-shet re-E-hu LO tim-ME
Exegesis
The final clause foregrounds the direct object with et {אֶת־ | ʾet} before the construct phrase eshet rei’ehu {אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖הוּ | ʾē-šet rē-ʿê-hū}, and employs the Piel perfect timme {טִמֵּֽא | tim-mē} ‘he defiled’ to intensify the covenant violation. Hebrew parallelism and repetition of lo + verb + object underscore moral purity. The English rendering maintains this parallel structure with negative clauses reordered for idiomatic clarity and rhetorical balance.
Root and etymology
“to defile, make unclean”
In context — Ezekiel 18:15
He has not eaten upon the mountains , nor lifted his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiled his neighbor’s wife .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 18:15:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Ezekiel 18:15, so the Hebrew word טִמֵּֽא׃ (timme) 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 Ezek.18.15.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.18.15.W13.S1) and character.