Leviticus 15:18:9Lev.15.18.W9TAB
וְטָמְא֖וּ
vehtamu
“and shall be unclean”
- Transliteration
- veh-tam-U
- Extended
- veh-tam-OO
- IPA
- /vətaˈmu/
Meaning by language
- English
- and shall be unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-tam-U
- clause
veh-ra-kha-TSU va-MA-yim veh-tam-U ad-ha-A-rev
- sentence
veh-ih-SHAH ah-SHER yish-KAV ISH o-TAH shikh-VAT-ZA-ra veh-ra-kha-TSU va-MA-yim veh-tam-U ad-ha-A-rev
Exegesis
The vav-consecutive verbs wəraḥaṣû {וְרָחֲצוּ | wə-ra-ḥa-ṣū} ‘and they shall wash’ and wəṭāmeʾû {וְטָמְא֖וּ | wə-ṭā-me-ʾū} ‘and they shall be unclean’ apply equally to both participants.
Root and etymology
Roottet-mem-aleph
“to be unclean, impure”
In context — Leviticus 15:18
And a woman with whom a man lies in an emission of semen—both shall wash with water , and they shall be unclean until the evening.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:18:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Leviticus 15:18, so the Hebrew word וְטָמְא֖וּ (vehtamu) 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.15.18.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.18.W9.S1) and character.