Leviticus 20:25:6Lev.20.25.W6TAB
הַטָּמֵ֖א
hattame
“the unclean”
- Transliteration
- hat-ta-ME
- Extended
- hat-tah-MEH
- IPA
- /hat.taˈmeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- the unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| 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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The word
Word in context
- word
hat-ta-ME
- phraseyour reading level
u-BEIN-ha-OF hat-ta-ME
- clause
veh-hiv-dal-TEM BEIN-ha-be-he-MA hat-te-ho-RA lat-te-me-AH u-BEIN-ha-OF hat-ta-ME lat-ta-HOR
- sentence
veh-hiv-dal-TEM BEIN-ha-be-he-MA hat-te-ho-RA lat-te-me-AH u-BEIN-ha-OF hat-ta-ME lat-ta-HOR ve-LO-tesh-ak-TSU et-naf-sho-TEI-khem bab-be-he-MAA u-va-OF uv-KOL a-SHER tir-MOS ha-a-da-MAH a-SHER-hiv-dal-TI la-KHEM le-tam-ME
Exegesis
This is followed by paired prepositional phrases beynhabhemah {בֵּֽין־הַבְּהֵמָ֤ה | bēn·ha·bĕ·hē·māh} ‘between the animal’ and uveinhaof {וּבֵין־הָע֥וֹף | ū·bēn·hā·‘ōp̄} ‘and between the bird’, each framing a contrast between purity and impurity marked by the adjectives hattehorah {הַטְּהֹרָה֙ | hattə·hō·rāh} ‘the clean’ and hattame {הַטָּמֵ֖א | hattā·mē·’} ‘the unclean’.
Root and etymology
t-m-’tet-mem-aleph
“to be unclean”
In context — Leviticus 20:25
And you shall separate between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. And you shall not make your souls detestable by any animal or by any bird or by anything that crawls on the ground, those which I have set apart for you for uncleanness.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:25:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Leviticus 20:25, so the Hebrew word הַטָּמֵ֖א (hattame) 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.20.25.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.25.W6.S1) and character.