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
Ewe

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
לְ + טַמ + מֵּֽא׃
le + tam + me
letamme

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Tett — emphatic
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Memm as in mother
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    le-tam-ME

  2. 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

  3. 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 contextLeviticus 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.