Leviticus 15:18:9Lev.15.18.W9PAT

וְטָמְא֖וּ

vetamu

shall be unclean

Transliteration
ve-tam-U
Extended
veh-tam-OO
IPA
/vətaˈmu/

Meaning by language

English
shall be unclean
French
seront impurs
Spanish
serán impuros
Portuguese
serão impuros
German
unrein werden
Russian
будут нечисты
Arabic-Simplified
يكونان نجسين
Hindi
अशुद्ध हों
Chinese-Simplified
变为不洁
Korean
부정하게 되다
Indonesian
menjadi najis
Bengali
অশুচি হবে
Tagalog
magiging marumi
Swahili
kuwa najisi
Amharic
ርኩስ መሆን
Yoruba
di aláìmọ́
Igbo
ghọọ ndị na-adịghị ọcha
Twi
yɛ fi
Ewe
ɖi fɔ

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Result
וְ + טָמְ + א֖וּ
ve + tam + u
vetamu

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Tett — emphatic
Qametslong 'ah'
Memm as in mother
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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The word

Word in context

  1. word

    ve-tam-U

  2. clause

    ve-ra-kha-TSU va-MA-yim ve-tam-U ad-ha-A-rev

  3. sentence

    veh-ih-SHAH ah-SHER yish-KAV ISH o-TAH shikh-VAT-ZA-ra ve-ra-kha-TSU va-MA-yim ve-tam-U ad-ha-A-rev

In contextLeviticus 15:18

a man lies with her and a woman who emission of semen shall bathe in water shall be unclean until the evening

About this coordinate

Leviticus 15:18:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Leviticus 15:18, so the Hebrew word וְטָמְא֖וּ (vetamu) 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.15.18.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.18.W9.S1) and character.