Leviticus 18:25:1Lev.18.25.W1TAB
וַתִּטְמָ֣א
vatitma
“became unclean”
- Transliteration
- va-tit-MA
- Extended
- vah-tit-MAA
- IPA
- /wa.tit.ˈmaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- became unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| 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
va-tit-MA
- phraseyour reading level
va-tit-MA ha-A-rets
- clause
va-tit-MA ha-A-rets va-ef-KOD a-vo-NAH a-LE-ya
- sentence
va-tit-MA ha-A-rets va-ef-KOD a-vo-NAH a-LE-ya va-ta-KI ha-A-rets et-yosh-VE-ya
Exegesis
The verb vatitma {וַתִּטְמָ֣א | wat·timmāʾ} ‘and it became defiled’ establishes the land’s corrupt state, followed by vaʾefqod {וָאֶפְקֹ֥ד | wā·’ep·qoḏ} ‘and I attended to’, signaling divine intervention.
Root and etymology
t-m-ʾtet-mem-aleph
“to be/become unclean”
In context — Leviticus 18:25
And the land became defiled, and I attended to its iniquity upon it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 18:25:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 18:25, so the Hebrew word וַתִּטְמָ֣א (vatitma) 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.18.25.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.18.25.W1.S1) and character.