Leviticus 15:25:18Lev.15.25.W18TAB
טְמֵאָ֥ה
tmeah
“unclean”
- Transliteration
- tme-AH
- Extended
- tmeh-AAH
- IPA
- /təmeˈʔaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
tme-AH
- phraseyour reading level
tme-AH HI
- clause
kol-yeh-MEH ZOV tum-a-TAH ki-MEH nid-da-TAH tih-YEH tme-AH HI
- sentence
ve-i-SHAH ki-ya-ZUV ZOV da-MAH ya-MEEM ra-BEEM be-LO et-nid-da-TAH O ki-taa-ZUV al-nid-da-TAH kol-yeh-MEH ZOV tum-a-TAH ki-MEH nid-da-TAH tih-YEH tme-AH HI
Exegesis
The concluding clause tihyeh tme’ah hi {תִּהְיֶה טְמֵאָה הִוא | tī-hyêh ṭə-mê-ʾāh hîʾ} ‘she shall be unclean’ states the legal consequence. English maintains the conditional “if” to preserve the hypothetical nuance, and reproduces the Hebrew parallelism with “all…of” and “as the days.”
Root and etymology
tet-mem-alephTet-Mem-Aleph
“to be unclean”
In context — Leviticus 15:25
And if a woman has a discharge of blood for many days outside the time of her separation, or if her flow continues beyond her separation, all the days of her discharge impurity shall be as the days of her separation; she shall be unclean .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:25:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of Leviticus 15:25, so the Hebrew word טְמֵאָ֥ה (tmeah) 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.15.25.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.25.W18.S1) and character.