Leviticus 15:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִשָּׁ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁכַּ֥ב אִ֛ישׁ אֹתָ֖הּ שִׁכְבַת־זָ֑רַע וְרָחֲצ֣וּ בַמַּ֔יִם וְטָמְא֖וּ עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

Transliteration

And ʾiššāh whom yiškab ʾîš ʾōtāh šikbat-zāraʿ, and wĕrāḥăṣû in the bammayim and wĕṭāmĕʾû until the hāʿāreb

Grammar Details

• *ʾiššāh*: noun, feminine singular - woman
• *yiškab*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he lies with
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
• *ʾōtāh*: direct object marker + 3rd feminine singular suffix - her
• *šikbat-zāraʿ*: noun in construct - emission of seed/semen
• *wĕrāḥăṣû*: waw-consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they shall wash
• *bammayim*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - in the water
• *wĕṭāmĕʾû*: waw-consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they shall be unclean
• *hāʿāreb*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the evening

Word Meanings

• *yiškab* *ʾîš* *ʾōtāh*: a man lies with her/a man has intercourse with her

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:15 : 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.
• Lev 15:5 : 5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
• 1 Sam 21:4-5 : 4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women. 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
• 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
• 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth {G1437} is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• Eph 4:17-19 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the {G3062} Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart; 19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Eph 5:3-9 : 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them; 8 For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
• 1 Thess 4:3-5 : 3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
• 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Heb 13:4 : 4 [None Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
• 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;