Leviticus 21:1:11Lev.21.1.W11TAB
לֹֽא־יִטַּמָּ֖א
loyitama
“not become unclean”
- Transliteration
- lo-yi-ta-MA
- Extended
- LOH-yee-tah-MAA
- IPA
- /lo.jitːamˈmaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not become unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| 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
lo-yi-ta-MA
- phraseyour reading level
le-NE-fesh lo-yi-ta-MA
- clause
ve-a-mar-TA a-le-HEM le-NE-fesh lo-yi-ta-MA be-a-MAV
- sentence
va-YO-mer Ye-ho-VAH el-MO-sheh e-MOR el-ha-ko-ha-NIM be-NEI a-ha-RON ve-a-mar-TA a-le-HEM le-NE-fesh lo-yi-ta-MA be-a-MAV
Exegesis
The second verb ve-amartā {וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ | wə-ʾā-mar-tā} ‘and you shall say’ frames the prohibition expressed by the idiom le-nefesh {לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ | lə-nĕ-p̄eš}, here meaning ‘on account of the dead’, lo {לֹֽא | lōʾ} negates the imperfect yiṭṭamma {יִטַּמָּ֖א | yiṭ-ṭa-māʾ} ‘he shall defile himself’ with reflexive force, and b-ʿammāy {בְּעַמָּֽיו | bĕ-ʿammāy} ‘among his people’ specifies communal boundaries.
Root and etymology
t-m-ʾtet–mem–aleph
“to be impure”
In context — Leviticus 21:1
And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and you shall say to them: ‘For a dead person , a priest is not to defile himself among his people.’”
About this coordinate
Leviticus 21:1:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Leviticus 21:1, so the Hebrew word לֹֽא־יִטַּמָּ֖א (loyitama) 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.21.1.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.21.1.W11.S1) and character.