Numbers 19:22:7Num.19.22.W7TAB
תִּטְמָ֥א
titma
“shall become unclean”
- Transliteration
- tit-MA
- Extended
- teet-MAH
- IPA
- /titˈmaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- shall become unclean
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
tit-MA
- phraseyour reading level
tit-MA ad-ha-AH-rev
- clause
ve-ha-NE-fesh ha-no-GA-at tit-MA ad-ha-AH-rev
- sentence
ve-KOL a-SHER-yi-GA-BO ha-ta-ME yit-MA ve-ha-NE-fesh ha-no-GA-at tit-MA ad-ha-AH-rev
Exegesis
Clause two mirrors this with the definite participle ha-no-ga-at {הַנֹּגַעַת | han·nō·ġa·ʿāṯ} and imperfect titma {תִּטְמָא | tit-tāmāʾ}, forming a chiastic parallelism between object and subject of the ritual defilement.
Root and etymology
t-m-ʾtet-mem-aleph
“to be unclean”
In context — Numbers 19:22
And everything that the unclean person touches shall become unclean, and the soul who touches it shall be unclean until the evening.
About this coordinate
Numbers 19:22:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Numbers 19:22, so the Hebrew word תִּטְמָ֥א (titma) 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.19.22.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.19.22.W7.S1) and character.