Leviticus 22:5:12Lev.22.5.W12TAB
טֻמְאָתֽוֹ׃
tumato
“his uncleanness”
- Transliteration
- tum-a-TO
- Extended
- tum-ah-TOH
- IPA
- /tum.ʔa.ˈtoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- his uncleanness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qibbuts | short 'oo' as in food | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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The word
Word in context
- word
tum-a-TO
- clause
O ve-a-DAM a-SHER yit-ma-LO le-KHOL tum-a-TO
- sentence
O-ISH a-SHER yi-GA be-khol-SHEH-rets a-SHER yit-ma-LO O ve-a-DAM a-SHER yit-ma-LO le-KHOL tum-a-TO
Exegesis
The closing phrase le-khol tum-ato {לְכֹל טֻמְאָתֹו | lə-ḵol ṭu-maʾ-tō} ‘for all his uncleanness’ broadens the scope to every form of impurity, reinforcing the equivalence of animal and human sources of defilement.
Root and etymology
tet-mem-alephtet-mem-aleph
“uncleanness”
In context — Leviticus 22:5
Or a man who touches any crawling creature that imparts uncleanness to him, or one who comes into contact with a person who becomes unclean through any of his uncleanness .
About this coordinate
Leviticus 22:5:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Leviticus 22:5, so the Hebrew word טֻמְאָתֽוֹ׃ (tumato) 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.22.5.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.22.5.W12.S1) and character.