Psalm 18:25:4Ps.18.25.W4TABWLC Psalms 18:26
תִּתַּמִּֽם׃
tittamim
“you show yourself blameless”
- Transliteration
- tit-ta-MIM
- Extended
- tit-tah-MEEM
- IPA
- /titamˈmiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- you show yourself blameless
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
tit-ta-MIM
- clause
IM-ge-VAR tit-ta-MIM
- sentence
IM-kha-SID tit-kha-SAD IM-ge-VAR tit-ta-MIM
Exegesis
Each clause pairs a noun phrase—chasid {חָסִיד | ḥā-sîḏ} ‘merciful one’ and gever tamim {גְּבַר תָּמִים | gə-ḇar tā-mîm} ‘blameless man’—with a Hitpael imperfect verb—tit-ḥas-sā-ḏ {תִּתְחַסָּד | tit-ḥas-sā-ḏ} and tit-tam-mām {תִּתַּמָּֽם | tit-tam-mām}—that conveys reciprocal action. This chiastic parallelism emphasizes that God’s response mirrors human character. The reflexive nuance of the Hitpael stem is rendered in English by phrases like ‘act kindly’ and ‘show Yourself blameless,’ and the implied subject is supplied as the pronoun You to reflect the original direct address.
Root and etymology
Roottav–mem–mem
“show oneself blameless”
In context — Psalm 18:25
With the merciful , You show Yourself merciful; with the blameless man, You show Yourself blameless.
About this coordinate
Psalm 18:25:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Psalm 18:25, so the Hebrew word תִּתַּמִּֽם׃ (tittamim) 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 Ps.18.25.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Ps.18.25.W4.S1) and character.