Leviticus 11:24

World English Bible (2000)

"'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּלְאֵ֖לֶּה תִּטַּמָּ֑אוּ כָּל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בְּנִבְלָתָ֖ם יִטְמָ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

Transliteration

And by ʾēlleh you shall tiṭṭammāʾû, all hannōgēaʿ with their nəbēlâ shall yiṭmāʾ until the ʿāreb.

Grammar Details

• *ûləʾēlleh*: conjunction + preposition + demonstrative pronoun, 'and by these'
• *tiṭṭammāʾû*: hitpael imperfect, 2nd masculine plural, 'you shall become unclean'
• *kol*: noun in construct, 'all/every'
• *hannōgēaʿ*: definite article + qal participle masculine singular, 'the one touching'
• *bənibəlâtām*: preposition + feminine singular noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix, 'with their carcass'
• *yiṭmāʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, 'he shall be unclean'
• *ʿad-hāʿāreb*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun, 'until the evening'

Word Meanings

• *tiṭṭammāʾû*: become unclean, be defiled, be ritually impure
• *nōgēaʿ*: one touching, one who comes in contact with
• *nəbēlâ*: carcass, dead body, corpse
• *yiṭmāʾ*: be unclean, be impure, be defiled
• *ʿāreb*: evening, sunset

Referenced Verses

• Lev 11:8 : 8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
• Lev 11:27-28 : 27 Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening. 28 He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
• Lev 11:31 : 31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.
• Lev 11:38-40 : 38 But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you. 39 "'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening. 40 He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
• Lev 17:15-16 : 15 "'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean. 16 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"
• Isa 22:14 : 14 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
• 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
• 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Eph 2:1-3 : 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Eph 5:11 : 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
• Col 2:16-17 : 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
• Col 2:20 : 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
• Heb 9:26 : 26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.