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Lexicon :: Strong's H2930 - ṭāmē'

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טָמֵא
Transliteration
ṭāmē'
Pronunciation
taw-may'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 809

Strong’s Definitions

טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ, taw-may'; a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated):—defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, × utterly.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x

The KJV translates Strong's H2930 in the following manner: unclean (74x), defile (71x), pollute (14x), uncleanness (1x), utterly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x
The KJV translates Strong's H2930 in the following manner: unclean (74x), defile (71x), pollute (14x), uncleanness (1x), utterly (1x).
  1. to be unclean, become unclean, become impure

    1. (Qal) to be or become unclean

      1. sexually

      2. religiously

      3. ceremonially

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to defile oneself, be defiled

        1. sexually

        2. by idolatry

        3. ceremonially

      2. to be regarded as unclean

    3. (Piel)

      1. to defile

        1. sexually

        2. religiously

        3. ceremonially

      2. to pronounce unclean, declare unclean (ceremonially)

      3. to profane (God's name)

    4. (Pual) to be defiled

    5. (Hithpael) to be unclean

    6. (Hothpael) to be defiled

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ, taw-may'; a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated):—defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, × utterly.
STRONGS H2930: Abbreviations
† I. טָמֵא verb be or become unclean (Late Hebrew Pi. pollute (ceremonially); Aramaic טְמָא and especially derivatives, bdb037901 Pa. pollute; see RSK 307 ff.) —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ט׳ Leviticus 11:25 + 22 times; 3rd person feminine singular טָֽמְאָה Leviticus 12:2 + 2 times; 2nd person feminine singular טָמֵאת Ezekiel 22:4; plural טָֽמְאוּ Leviticus 15:18; Imperfect יִטְמָא Leviticus 5:3 + 34 times; 3rd person feminine singular תִּטְמָא Leviticus 12:2 + 4 times; plural יִטְמְאוּ Psalm 106:39; Infinitive טָמְאָה Leviticus 15:32 + 6 times; — be or become unclean:
1. sexually, with בְּ Leviticus 18:20, 23 (H), Ezekiel 23:17; the land Leviticus 18:25, 27 (H).
2. religiously, with idols Ezekiel 22:3; with בְ Ezekiel 22:4; with necromancers Leviticus 19:31 (H); by sacrificing children to idols Psalm 106:39.
3. ceremonially, by contact with carcasses of unclean animals Leviticus 11:24, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34 (twice in verse); Leviticus 11:35, 36, 40 (P); any carcass Leviticus 17:15 (H); eating of a carcass Leviticus 22:8 (H); by issues Leviticus 15:4, 9, 20 (twice in verse); Leviticus 15:24, 27, 32 (P); by contact with an unclean man Leviticus 5:3; Leviticus 15:4 (P), Leviticus 22:5 (H), or thing Leviticus 22:6 (H); by leprosy Leviticus 13:14, 46; Leviticus 14:36, 46 (P); by contact with the dead Numbers 6:12; Numbers 19:20 (P), Ezekiel 44:25, or with one unclean by such contact Numbers 19:22 (P), Haggai 2:13 (twice in verse); by contact with creeping things Leviticus 22:5 (H); certain animals were always unclean Leviticus 11:26, 27 (P). In ordinary cases of uncleanness טמא עד הערב unclean till even Leviticus 11:24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 39, 40 (twice in verse); Leviticus 14:46; Leviticus 15:5; Leviticus 15:6; Leviticus 15:7; Leviticus 15:8; Leviticus 15:10 (twice in verse); Leviticus 15:11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27; Numbers 19:7; Numbers 19:8; Numbers 19:10; Numbers 19:21; Numbers 19:22 (all P), Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 22:6 (H); but uncleanness lasted 7 days for woman bearings a son Leviticus 12:2 (twice in verse) (P), for lying with woman having an issue Leviticus 15:24 (P), or one coming in contact with the dead Numbers 19:11, 14, 16 (P); it lasted 14 days for a woman bearing a daughter Leviticus 12:5 (P).
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִטְמָא Hosea 5:3; Hosea 6:10; 3rd person feminine singular נִטְמְאָה Numbers 5:27, 28; נִטְמָ֑אָה Numbers 5:13 + 5 times; 1st person singular נִטְמֵאתִי Jeremiah 2:23; 2nd person masculine plural נִטְמֵתֶם Leviticus 11:43 (א omitted by scribal error; but Ges and others derive from טמה), etc. + 4 times perfect; Participle plural נִטְמְאִים Ezekiel 20:30, 31; — defile oneself, be defiled:
1. sexually, Leviticus 18:24 (H), Numbers 5:13, 14 (twice in verse); Numbers 5:20, 27, 28, 29 (P).
2. by idolatry conceived as whoredom Hosea 5:3; Hosea 6:10; Jeremiah 2:23; Ezekiel 20:30, 31, 43; Ezekiel 23:7, 13, 30.
3. ceremonially, by eating creeping things Leviticus 11:43.
4. be regarded as unclean (compare Pi. 4), probably נִטְמִינִוּ Job 18:3 we are accounted as unclean; metal. from; on another view see טמה.
Pi. Perfect טִמֵּא Genesis 34:5 + 15 times; suffix טִמְּאוֺ Leviticus 13:8 + 3 times; 2nd person feminine singular טִמֵּאת Ezekiel 5:11, etc. + 7 times Perfect; Imperfect יְטַמֵּא 2 Kings 23:8, etc. + 12 times Imperfect; Imperative plural טַמְּאוּ Ezekiel 9:7; Infinitive טַמֵּא Leviticus 13:44 + 2 times; suffix טַמְּאָם Leviticus 15:31, etc. + 4 times Infinitive; — defile:
1. sexually Genesis 34:5, 13, 27 (R), Ezekiel 18:6, 11, 15; Ezekiel 22:11; Ezekiel 33:26; the land by sexual impurities of the people Leviticus 18:28 (H); Israel by spiritual whoredom Ezekiel 23:17.
2. religiously: the land by bloodshed Numbers 35:34 (P); by allowing the dead body of the murderer to hang on the tree over night Deuteronomy 21:23; by idolatry Jeremiah 2:7; Ezekiel 36:17, 18; Israel defiled the sacred places by the sacrifice of children Leviticus 20:3 (H), Ezekiel 23:38, and God defiled him thereby Ezekiel 20:26; he defileth the sacred places by idolatry 2 Chronicles 36:14; Jeremiah 7:30 = Jeremiah 32:34, Ezekiel 5:11; the holy name of י׳ Ezekiel 43:7, 8; Josiah defiled the idolatrous places of worship by destroying them and making them unfit for use 2 Kings 23:8, 10, 13, 16; of Israel defiling idolatrous images Isaiah 30:22, and the nations the temple of God Psalm 79:1.
3. ceremonially: by ceremonial uncleanness, the sacred places Leviticus 15:31; Numbers 19:13, 20 (P); the camp Numbers 5:3 (P); the temple by dead bodies Ezekiel 9:7; the Nazirite's head of separation by a death occurring in his presence Numbers 6:9 (P); the people defile themselves (נפשׁתיכם) by creeping things Leviticus 11:44 (P).
4. pronounce or declare ceremonially unclean: the leper Leviticus 13:3, 8, 11, 15, 20, 22, 25, 27, 30, 44 (twice in verse); Leviticus 13:59 (P); unclean animals Leviticus 20:25 (H).
Pu. Participle נַפְשִׁי לֹא מְטֻמָּאָה Ezekiel 4:14 myself is not polluted.
Hithp. Imperfect יִטַּמָּא Leviticus 21:1 + 4 times; plural יִטַּמְּאוּ Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 37:23; יִטַּמָּ֑אוּ Hosea 9:4; Ezekiel 44:25, etc. + 6 times Imperfect — reflexive, defile oneself: by eating of an unaccepted peace-offering Hosea 9:4; with בְּ Leviticus 18:24, 30 (H), Leviticus 11:43 (P), Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 20:7, 18; Ezekiel 37:23; with לְ for a dead person Leviticus 21:1, 3, 11 (H), Numbers 6:7 (P); by Leviticus 11:24 (P); without preposition Leviticus 21:4 (H), Ezekiel 44:25.
Hothp. Perfect אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר חֻטַּמָּ֑אָה Deuteronomy 24:4 after that she has been defiled (sexually); on form see Ges§ 54. 3.

טָמְאָה noun feminine uncleanness (טָֽמְאָה, Baer, seems to rest upon a misinterpretation of the form) Micah 2:10 (so Thes MV SS); of ethical uncleanness, from wrong-doing.
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Strong's Number H2930 matches the Hebrew טָמֵא (ṭāmē'),
which occurs 162 times in 142 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Lev 15:22–2Ki 23:13)

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:22 - ‘And whoever touches any thing on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - ‘Whether it be on the bed or on the thing on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - ‘If a man actually lies with her so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be H2930 unclean H2930 seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be H2930 unclean H2930.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:27 - ‘Likewise, whoever touches them shall be H2930 unclean H2930 and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 -

“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by making My [fn]tabernacle that is among them unclean H2930.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:32 - This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man [fn]who has a seminal emission so that he is H2930 unclean H2930 by it,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:15 - “And when any person eats an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and remain H2930 unclean H2930 until evening; then he will become clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:20 - ‘And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled H2930 with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:23 - ‘Also you shall not lie with any animal to be defiled H2930 with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to [fn]mate with it; it is a perversion.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 -

‘So do not defile H2930 yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become H2930 defiled H2930.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - ‘So the land has become H2930 defiled H2930, and I have brought its [fn]punishment upon it. And the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become H2930 defiled H2930);
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile H2930 it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - ‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, so as not to defile H2930 yourselves with them; I am Yahweh your God.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:31 -

‘Do not turn to [fn]mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled H2930 by them. I am Yahweh your God.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - ‘I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he has given some of those who are his seed to Molech, so as to defile H2930 My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - ‘You are therefore to separate between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make [fn]yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything [fn]that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean H2930.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1 -

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:

‘No one shall defile H2930 himself for a dead person among his people,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - also for his virgin sister, who is near to him [fn]because she has had no husband; for her he may defile H2930 himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:4 - ‘He shall not defile H2930 himself as a [fn]relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - nor shall he approach any dead person nor defile H2930 himself even for his father or his mother;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or if a man touches any teeming things by which he is made H2930 unclean H2930 or any man by whom he is made H2930 unclean H2930, whatever his uncleanness,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:6 - a [fn]person who touches any such thing shall be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening and shall not eat of the holy gifts unless he has bathed his [fn]body in water.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - ‘He shall not eat an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming H2930 unclean H2930 by it; I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - “You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile H2930 their camp where I dwell in their midst.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is [fn]undetected; but she has defiled H2930 herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught in the act,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - [fn]if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife and she has defiled H2930 herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife but she has not defiled H2930 herself,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled H2930 yourself, and a man other than your husband has lain with you”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - ‘So he will have her drink the water, and it will be that, if she has defiled H2930 herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings curses will go into her to cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - ‘But if the woman has not defiled H2930 herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive a seed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 -

‘This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, being under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles H2930 herself,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - ‘He shall not defile H2930 himself for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because the Nazirite vow to his God is on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:9 -

‘But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles H2930 the head of hair during his Nazirite vow, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - and shall dedicate to Yahweh the days of his [fn]Nazirite vow and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his Nazirite vow was defiled H2930.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 - ‘The priest shall then wash his clothes and bathe his [fn]body in water and afterward come into the camp, but the priest shall be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:8 - ‘The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his [fn]body in water and shall be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - ‘And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the sojourner who sojourns among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:11 -

‘The one who touches the corpse of any [fn]person shall be H2930 unclean H2930 for seven days.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - ‘Anyone who touches a corpse, the [fn]body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, [fn]makes H2930 the [fn]tabernacle of Yahweh unclean H2930; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not [fn]splashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:14 -

‘This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be H2930 unclean H2930 for seven days.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - ‘Also, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be H2930 unclean H2930 for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 -

‘But the man who is H2930 unclean H2930 and does not purify himself from uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he has [fn]made H2930 the sanctuary of Yahweh unclean H2930; the water for impurity has not been [fn]splashed on him; he is unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - ‘So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - ‘Furthermore, anything that the unclean person touches shall be H2930 unclean H2930; and the person who touches it shall be H2930 unclean H2930 until evening.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - ‘And you shall not defile H2930 the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I Yahweh am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (because cursed of God is he who is hanged), so that you do not make unclean H2930 your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled H2930; for that is an abomination before Yahweh, and you shall not bring sin on the land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - Then he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled H2930 the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he tore down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the ruler of the city, which were on one’s left at the city gate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:10 - He also defiled H2930 [fn]Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire for Molech.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the detestable idol of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled H2930.

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