Leviticus 22:6:4Lev.22.6.W4TAB
וְטָמְאָ֖ה
vehtahmehah
“and is unclean”
- Transliteration
- veh-tah-meh-AH
- Extended
- veh-tah-meh-AA
- IPA
- /və.taː.mə.ˈʔaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and is unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-tah-meh-AH
- clause
NE-fesh a-SHER tig-ga-BO veh-tah-meh-AH ad-ha-AH-rev
- sentence
NE-fesh a-SHER tig-ga-BO veh-tah-meh-AH ad-ha-AH-rev veh-LO yo-KHAL min-ha-ko-da-SHIM KI im-ra-KHATS be-sa-RO bam-ma-YIM
Exegesis
Vav-consecutive in vetamaah {וְטָמְאָ֖ה | wə·ṭam·āʾ·āh} ‘and is unclean’ links action to status.
Root and etymology
Rootṭ-m-ʾ
“to be unclean”
In context — Leviticus 22:6
Any person who touches it shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall not eat from the holy things unless he has washed his flesh in water.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 22:6:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Leviticus 22:6, so the Hebrew word וְטָמְאָ֖ה (vehtahmehah) 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.22.6.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.22.6.W4.S1) and character.