Leviticus 20:25:18Lev.20.25.W18PAT
לְטַמֵּֽא׃
letamme
“to defile”
- Transliteration
- le-tam-ME
- Extended
- leh-tam-MEH
- IPA
- /lətaˈmeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to defile
- French
- souiller
- Spanish
- contaminar
- Portuguese
- contaminar
- German
- verunreinigen
- Russian
- осквернять
- Arabic-Simplified
- تدنيس
- Hindi
- अशुद्ध करना
- Chinese-Simplified
- 玷污
- Korean
- 더럽히다
- Indonesian
- menajiskan
- Bengali
- অশুচি করা
- Tagalog
- dungisan
- Swahili
- kunajisi
- Amharic
- ማርከስ
- Yoruba
- ba
- Igbo
- merụọ
- Twi
- fĩ
- Ewe
- fĩ
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| 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
le-tam-ME
- clause
ve-LO-tesh-ak-TSU et-naf-sho-TEI-khem bab-be-HE-MA u-va-OF uv-KOL a-SHER tir-MOS ha-a-da-MAH a-SHER-hiv-dal-TI la-KHEM le-tam-ME
- sentence
ve-hiv-dal-TEM BEIN-ha-be-he-MA hat-te-ho-RA lat-te-me-AH u-BEIN-ha-OF hat-ta-ME lat-ta-HOR ve-LO-tesh-ak-TSU et-naf-sho-TEI-khem bab-be-HE-MA u-va-OF uv-KOL a-SHER tir-MOS ha-a-da-MAH a-SHER-hiv-dal-TI la-KHEM le-tam-ME
In context — Leviticus 20:25
separate between the beast the clean the unclean and between the bird the unclean to the clean and not defile your souls by the beast and by the bird and by everything that crawls the ground set apart for you to defile
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:25:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of Leviticus 20:25, so the Hebrew word לְטַמֵּֽא׃ (letamme) 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.20.25.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.25.W18.S1) and character.