Numbers 19:10:6Num.19.10.W6TAB
וְטָמֵ֖א
vetamey
“and be unclean”
- Transliteration
- ve-ta-MEY
- Extended
- veh-ta-MEH
- IPA
- /vətaˈmeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and be 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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ta-MEY
- clause
ve-ki-BES ha-o-SEF et-E-FER ha-pa-RA et-be-ga-DAV ve-ta-MEY ad-ha-AH-rev
- sentence
ve-ki-BES ha-o-SEF et-E-FER ha-pa-RA et-be-ga-DAV ve-ta-MEY ad-ha-AH-rev ve-ha-ye-TAH liv-NEY yis-ra-EL ve-la-GER ha-GAR be-to-KHAM le-khu-KAT o-LAM
Exegesis
The following vetame {וְטָמֵא | wə-ṭā-me'} continues the consecutive perfect to indicate resulting impurity, followed by the temporal phrase ad-ha-'a-rev {עַד־הָעָרֶב | 'ad-hā-'ā-rev} “until the evening.”
Root and etymology
“unclean, polluted”
In context — Numbers 19:10
And the one who gathers the ashes of the cow shall wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening. It shall be for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns among them as an everlasting statute .
About this coordinate
Numbers 19:10:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 19:10, so the Hebrew word וְטָמֵ֖א (vetamey) 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 Num.19.10.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.19.10.W6.S1) and character.