Leviticus 15:19:14Lev.15.19.W14TAB
יִטְמָ֥א
yitma
“be unclean”
- Transliteration
- yit-MA
- Extended
- yit-MAA
- IPA
- /jitˈmaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- be unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
yit-MA
- phraseyour reading level
yit-MA ad-ha-AH-rev
- clause
shiv-AT ya-MIM tih-YEH be-nid-da-TAH veh-KHOL-hah-no-GEH-ah BAH yit-MA ad-ha-AH-rev
- sentence
ve-i-SHAH kee-ti-YEH za-VAH DAM yih-YEH zo-VAH biv-sa-RAH shiv-AT ya-MIM tih-YEH be-nid-da-TAH veh-KHOL-hah-no-GEH-ah BAH yit-MA ad-ha-AH-rev
Exegesis
The imperfect yiṯ-mā‘ {יִטְמָ֥א | yiṯ-mā‘} ‘shall become unclean’ prescribes ritual status, and the delimiting phrase ʿad hā-ʾā-reḇ {עַד־הָעָֽרֶב | ʿad hā-ʾā-reḇ} ‘until the evening’ sets the temporal boundary. This protasis–apodosis pattern with temporal markers undergirds the law’s regulatory force, and the English version retains Hebrew clause order within an English SVO framework.
Root and etymology
t-m-ʾtet-mem-aleph
“ritually unclean”
In context — Leviticus 15:19
And when a woman has a discharge and the discharge is blood in her flesh, she shall be unclean for seven days , and anyone who touches her shall be unclean until the evening .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:19:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Leviticus 15:19, so the Hebrew word יִטְמָ֥א (yitma) 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.15.19.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.19.W14.S1) and character.