Leviticus 18:24:5Lev.18.24.W5TAB
נִטְמְא֣וּ
nitmeoo
“became unclean”
- Transliteration
- nit-me-OO
- Extended
- neet-meh-OO
- IPA
- /nit.məˈʔuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- became unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a 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
nit-me-OO
- phraseyour reading level
nit-me-OO ha-go-YIM
- clause
KI be-khol-EH-leh nit-me-OO ha-go-YIM a-sher-a-NI me-shal-LEH-akh mi-pe-NE-khem
- sentence
al-ti-tam-me-OO be-khol-EH-leh KI be-khol-EH-leh nit-me-OO ha-go-YIM a-sher-a-NI me-shal-LEH-akh mi-pe-NE-khem
Exegesis
In that clause, the Niphal perfect nitme’u {נִטְמְא֣וּ | niṭməʾû} ‘they were defiled’ describes the passive result for the nations (hagoyim).
Root and etymology
ט־מ־אtaw-mem-aleph
“to be/become impure”
In context — Leviticus 18:24
Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these the nations that I am driving out from before you have defiled themselves.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 18:24:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 18:24, so the Hebrew word נִטְמְא֣וּ (nitmeoo) 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.18.24.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.18.24.W5.S1) and character.