Leviticus 19:31:5Lev.19.31.W5PAT
לְטָמְאָ֣ה
lehtahmehah
“to become unclean”
- Transliteration
- leh-tah-meh-AH
- Extended
- leh-tah-meh-AA
- IPA
- /lə.tɔm.ʔaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to become unclean
- French
- pour devenir impur
- Spanish
- para volverse impuros
- Portuguese
- para tornar-se impuro
- German
- um unrein zu werden
- Russian
- чтобы оскверниться
- Arabic-Simplified
- لكي تتنجسوا
- Hindi
- अशुद्ध होने के लिए
- Chinese-Simplified
- 为了变得不洁
- Korean
- 부정하게 되려고
- Indonesian
- untuk menjadi najis
- Bengali
- অশুচি হতে
- Tagalog
- upang maging marumi
- Swahili
- ili kuwa najisi
- Amharic
- ለመርከስ
- Yoruba
- lati di alaimọ́
- Igbo
- ka unu bụrụ ndị na-adịghị ọcha
- Twi
- sɛ moyɛ fi
- Ewe
- be du blibo
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| 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
leh-tah-meh-AH
- phraseyour reading level
leh-tah-meh-AH vah-HEM
- clause
al-tihf-NU ehl-hah-o-VOT veh-ehl-ha-yid-de-o-NIM al-te-vak-SHU leh-tah-meh-AH vah-HEM
- sentence
al-tihf-NU ehl-hah-o-VOT veh-ehl-ha-yid-de-o-NIM al-te-vak-SHU leh-tah-meh-AH vah-HEM a-NI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-he-KHEM
In context — Leviticus 19:31
Do not turn to the mediums and to the necromancers do not seek to become unclean by them I LORD your God
About this coordinate
Leviticus 19:31:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 19:31, so the Hebrew word לְטָמְאָ֣ה (lehtahmehah) 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.19.31.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.19.31.W5.S1) and character.