Leviticus 15:7:8Lev.15.7.W8TAB
וְטָמֵ֥א
vehtameh
“and be unclean”
- Transliteration
- veh-ta-MEH
- Extended
- veh-tah-MEH
- IPA
- /və.taˈmeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and 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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
veh-ta-MEH
- phraseyour reading level
veh-ta-MEH ad-ha-AH-rev
- clause
ye-kha-BES be-ga-DAV veh-ra-KHATS bam-MA-yim veh-ta-MEH ad-ha-AH-rev
- sentence
veh-hah-no-GEH-ah biv-SAR ha-ZAV ye-kha-BES be-ga-DAV veh-ra-KHATS bam-MA-yim veh-ta-MEH ad-ha-AH-rev
Exegesis
Vetamei ad-haʾarev {וְטָמֵא עַד־הָעָרֶב | wə-ṭā-mēʾ ʿad-hā-ʿā-rev} sets the impurity's temporal boundary with the “until evening” idiom. This structure preserves the Hebrew stepwise legal sequence in English translation.
Root and etymology
t-m-ʾtet-mem-aleph
“ritually unclean”
In context — Leviticus 15:7
And whoever touches the flesh of the man with a discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:7:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Leviticus 15:7, so the Hebrew word וְטָמֵ֥א (vehtameh) 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.15.7.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.7.W8.S1) and character.