Leviticus 15:26:13Lev.15.26.W13TAB
טָמֵ֣א
tameh
“unclean”
- Transliteration
- ta-MEH
- Extended
- tah-MEH
- IPA
- /taˈmeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- unclean
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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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Word in context
- word
ta-MEH
- phraseyour reading level
ta-MEH yih-YEH
- clause
ve-kol-ha-ke-LI a-SHER te-SHEV a-LAV ta-MEH yih-YEH ke-tum-AT ni-da-TAH
- sentence
kol-ha-mish-KAV a-SHER-tish-KAV a-LAV kol-yeh-MEH zo-VAH keh-mish-KAV ni-da-TAH yih-yeh-LAH ve-kol-ha-ke-LI a-SHER te-SHEV a-LAV ta-MEH yih-YEH ke-tum-AT ni-da-TAH
Exegesis
This pattern repeats in the second conjunct ve-kol-hakeli-asher-teshev-alav {וְכָל־הַכְּלִי אֲשֶׁר תֵּשֵׁב עָלָיו | wə-kol-hak·kē·lî-ăšer-tē·šēḇ-ʿalāyw} “and every vessel on which she sits,” followed by the predicate tameh {טָמֵא | ṭā·mēʾ} “be unclean” and the parallel simile ke-tumat-niddatah {כְּטֻמְאַת־נִדָּתָהּ | kə-tum·āṯ-nid·dāh} “like the impurity of her menstruation.” This chiastic parallelism (bed/vessel; lie/sit; discharge/impurity) reinforces the legal symmetry of ritual contamination.
Root and etymology
Roottet-mem-aleph
“to be unclean”
In context — Leviticus 15:26
Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like the bed of her menstruation, and every vessel on which she sits shall be unclean for her, as the uncleanness of her menstruation.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:26:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Leviticus 15:26, so the Hebrew word טָמֵ֣א (tameh) 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.15.26.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.26.W13.S1) and character.