Leviticus 11:4:5Lev.11.4.W5TAB
מִֽמַּעֲלֵי֙
mimaalei
“from those who chew”
- Transliteration
- mi-ma-a-LEI
- Extended
- mih-mah-a-LEE
- IPA
- /mim.ma.ʕăˈleː/
Meaning by language
- English
- from those who chew
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
mi-ma-a-LEI
- clause
AKH et-ZEH LO to-akh-LU mi-ma-a-LEI ha-ge-RAH u-mi-maf-ri-SEI ha-par-SA
- sentence
AKH et-ZEH LO to-akh-LU mi-ma-a-LEI ha-ge-RAH u-mi-maf-ri-SEI ha-par-SA et-ha-ga-MAL ki-ma-a-LE ge-RAH HU u-par-SA ei-ne-NU maf-RIS ta-MEH HU la-KHEM
Exegesis
Two parallel construct-participles, mi-maalei {מִמַּעֲלֵי֙ | mi-maʿʿă-lê} ‘from those who chew’ and u-mi-mafrisei {וּמִמַּפְרִיסֵ֖י | ū-mi-maf-rī-sê} ‘and from those who split’, govern ha-gerah {הַגֵּרָ֔ה | ha-ḡē-rā(h)} ‘the cud’ and ha-parsah {הַפַּרְסָ֑ה | ha-p̄ar-sā(h)} ‘the hoof’, defining prohibited groups.
In context — Leviticus 11:4
But of these you shall not eat those that chew the cud or those that split the hoof. The camel, because it chews the cud but its hoof is not split, is unclean for you.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 11:4:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 11:4, so the Hebrew word מִֽמַּעֲלֵי֙ (mimaalei) 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.11.4.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.11.4.W5.S1) and character.