Leviticus 11:33

וְכָל־כְּלִי־חֶרֶשׂ אֲשֶׁר־יִפֹּל מֵהֶם אֶל־תּוֹכוֹ כֹּל אֲשֶׁר בְּתוֹכוֹ יִטְמָא וְאֹתוֹ תִשְׁבֹּֽרוּ׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

וְכָל־כְּלִי־חֶ֔רֶשׂ אֲשֶׁר־יִפֹּ֥ל מֵהֶ֖ם אֶל־תּוֹכ֑וֹ כֹּ֣ל אֲשֶׁ֧ר בְּתוֹכ֛וֹ יִטְמָ֖א וְאֹת֥וֹ תִשְׁבֹּֽרוּ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ πᾶν σκεῦος ὀστράκινον εἰς ὃ ἐὰν πέσῃ ἀπὸ τούτων ἔνδον, ὅσα ἐὰν ἔνδον ἦν ἀκάθαρτα ἔσται, καὶ αὐτὸ συντριβήσεται.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Vas autem fictile, in quod horum quidquam intro cecidit, polluetur, et idcirco frangendum est.

Spanish

Si uno de estos animales cae dentro de una olla de barro, todo lo que esté adentro quedará impuro, y deberán quebrar la olla.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y toda vasija de barro dentro de la cual cayere alguno de ellos, todo lo que estuviere en ella será inmundo, y quebraréis la vasija:

English

If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse addresses the case of an earthenware vessel into which one of the previously mentioned unclean creatures falls. Everything inside the vessel becomes unclean, and the vessel itself must be broken.

Key words

kli ("vessel of", H3627) — masculine singular construct, linked to cheres to form the phrase "vessel of earthenware," identifying the specific material category being discussed.
cheres ("earthenware", H2789) — masculine singular noun specifying the vessel's material, distinguishing it from other materials that may be treated differently.
yippol ("it will fall", H5307G) — qal imperfect, expressing a hypothetical or future event ("should it fall"), setting up the conditional structure of the verse.
tokho ("its midst", H8432 + H9023) — construct noun with third-person masculine singular suffix ("his/its"), appearing twice to mark the interior space of the vessel as the location of contamination.
yitma' ("it will be unclean", H2930A) — qal imperfect describing the resulting state applied to the contents, not the vessel's material state directly.
tishberu ("you will break", H7665) — qal imperfect, second person masculine plural, an instruction addressed collectively to the audience.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built around a relative clause structure: ve-khol-kli-cheres ("and every vessel of earthenware") is qualified by asher yippol mehem el-tokho ("that [something] from them falls into its midst"), using the preposition el ("into") with tokho ("its midst/interior," H8432 with suffix H9023) to specify the point of contact — the inside of the vessel, not merely its surface. The next clause repeats the construction with be-tokho ("in its midst"), using the preposition be ("in") rather than el, marking a shift from motion-into to static location-within, describing what happens to "all that is within it" (kol asher betokho).

The verb yitma' ("it will be unclean," H2930A) governs the contents (kol asher betokho), grammatically distinct from the vessel itself, which is addressed separately in the final clause. The object marker 'oto ("it," H0853 + H9033) refers back to the vessel (kli), and the command tishberu ("you will break," H7665) is in second-person plural, addressing the community rather than an individual. The imperfect verb forms throughout (yippol, yitma', tishberu) carry a conditional-future sense typical of case law formulations in this chapter, describing sequence: falling, resulting uncleanness, then required action.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.