Leviticus 14:44:12Lev.14.44.W12TAB
טָמֵ֥א
tame
“unclean”
- Transliteration
- ta-ME
- Extended
- tah-MEH
- IPA
- /ta.ˈmeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ta-ME
- phraseyour reading level
ta-ME HOO
- clause
TSA-ra-at mam-E-ret HEE ba-BA-yit ta-ME HOO
- sentence
oo-VA ha-ko-HEN ve-ra-AH ve-hin-NEH PA-sa ha-NE-ga ba-BA-yit TSA-ra-at mam-E-ret HEE ba-BA-yit ta-ME HOO
Exegesis
The adjective tame {טָמֵ֥א | ṭā-mēʾ} ‘unclean’ delivers the legal verdict. Hebrew expresses the protasis without an explicit conjunction ‘if’, placing it within the sequential vav-consecutive narrative. In English, these forms are rendered with present and future verbs to preserve the sense of unfolding action.
Root and etymology
t-m-ʾtet-mem-aleph
“to be unclean”
In context — Leviticus 14:44
And the priest shall come and examine it, and behold, if the affliction has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 14:44:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Leviticus 14:44, so the Hebrew word טָמֵ֥א (tame) 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.14.44.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.14.44.W12.S1) and character.