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Lexicon :: Strong's H2931 - ṭāmē'

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טָמֵא
Transliteration
ṭāmē'
Pronunciation
taw-may'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 809a

Strong’s Definitions

טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ, taw-may'; from H2930; foul in a religious sense:—defiled, infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x

The KJV translates Strong's H2931 in the following manner: unclean (79x), defiled (5x), infamous (1x), polluted (1x), pollution (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x
The KJV translates Strong's H2931 in the following manner: unclean (79x), defiled (5x), infamous (1x), polluted (1x), pollution (1x).

  1. unclean, impure

    1. ethically and religiously

    2. ritually

    3. of places

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ, taw-may'; from H2930; foul in a religious sense:—defiled, infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.
STRONGS H2931: Abbreviations
† II. טָמֵא adjective unclean; — ט׳ Leviticus 5:2 + 58 times; construct טְמֵא Leviticus 22:4 + 3 times; feminine טְמֵאָה Leviticus 5:2 + 11 times; construct טְמֵאַת Ezekiel 22:5, 10; plural טְמֵאִים Leviticus 11:8 + 10 times; — unclean,
1. ethically and religiously שׂפתים ט׳ Isaiah 6:5 (twice in verse) unclean of lips; השׁם ט׳ Ezekiel 22:5 defiled of name, infamous; טהור מִטּ׳ Job 14:4.
2. ritually:
a. of persons, || טהור Deuteronomy 12:15, 22; Deuteronomy 15:22; Ecclesiastes 9:2; נפשׁ ט׳ Leviticus 22:4 (H); (אדם) לנפשׁ ט׳ unclean for a (dead) person Numbers 5:2; Numbers 9:6, 7, 10 (P) = נפשׁ ט׳ Haggai 2:13; elsewhere for various reasons Deuteronomy 26:14; Leviticus 5:2; Leviticus 13:11, 16, 44, 45 (twice in verse); Leviticus 13:46; Leviticus 15:2, 25, 33; Numbers 19:13, 17, 19, 20, 22 (all P), 2 Chronicles 23:19; Isaiah 64:5; Ezekiel 4:13; Ezekiel 22:10; Lamentations 4:15.
b. of animals Leviticus 5:2 (4 times in verse); Leviticus 7:21 (twice in verse); Leviticus 11:4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31; Leviticus 27:11, 27; Numbers 18:15 (all P), Leviticus 20:25 (twice in verse) (H), Deuteronomy 14:7, 8, 10, 19.
c. of things in general Leviticus 11:35 (twice in verse); Leviticus 11:38; Leviticus 15:26; Numbers 19:15 (all P), Isaiah 52:11; food Judges 13:4; Hosea 9:3; houses Jeremiah 19:13; leprosy Leviticus 13:15, 51, 55; Leviticus 14:44, 57 (P); offering Haggai 2:14.
d. persons and things in general כל טמא Leviticus 7:19, 21 (P); ובין הטהור הבדיל בין הט׳ Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 11:47; לטהור הודיע בין (ה)ט׳ Ezekiel 22:26; Ezekiel 44:23; of aliens Isaiah 52:1 (|| עָרֵל), perhaps also Isaiah 35:8.
3. specifically of places: מקום ט׳ unclean place (place of refuse away from holy place and human habitation) Leviticus 14:40, 41, 45 (P); טמאה ארץ land on the east of the Jordan separated from the land of the tabernacle of י׳ Joshua 22:19 (P); so אדמה ט׳ a foreign land Amos 7:17.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

5:2; 5:2; 5:2; 5:2; 7:19; 7:21; 7:21; 10:10; 11:4; 11:5; 11:6; 11:7; 11:8; 11:8; 11:26; 11:27; 11:28; 11:29; 11:31; 11:35; 11:38; 11:47; 13:11; 13:15; 13:16; 13:44; 13:45; 13:46; 13:51; 13:55; 14:40; 14:41; 14:44; 14:45; 14:57; 15:2; 15:25; 15:26; 15:33; 20:25; 22:4; 22:4; 27:11; 27:27

Numbers

5:2; 9:6; 9:7; 9:10; 18:15; 19:13; 19:15; 19:17; 19:19; 19:20; 19:22

Deuteronomy

12:15; 12:22; 14:7; 14:8; 14:10; 14:19; 15:22; 26:14

Joshua

22:19

Judges

13:4

2 Chronicles

23:19

Job

14:4

Ecclesiastes

9:2

Isaiah

6:5; 35:8; 52:1; 52:11; 64:5

Jeremiah

19:13

Lamentations

4:15

Ezekiel

4:13; 22:5; 22:5; 22:10; 22:10; 22:26; 44:23

Hosea

9:3

Amos

7:17

Haggai

2:13; 2:14

H2931

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2931 matches the Hebrew טָמֵא (ṭāmē'),
which occurs 88 times in 78 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 5:2–Deu 12:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - That soul which shall touch any unclean thing, or carcase, or that which is unclean being taken of beasts, or the dead bodies of abominable reptiles which are unclean, or carcases of unclean cattle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - And whatsoever flesh shall have touched any unclean thing, it shall not be eaten, it shall be consumed with fire; every one that is clean shall eat the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offering, which is the Lord's, that soul shall perish from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10 - to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - But of these ye shall not eat, of those that chew the cud, and of those that part the hoofs, and divide claws; the camel, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5 - And the rabbit, because it chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6 - And the hare, because it does not chew the cud, and does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7 - And the swine, because this animal divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, and it does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - Ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall not touch their carcases; these are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - And whichever among the beasts divides the hoof and makes claws, and does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you; every one that touches their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - And every one among all the wild beasts that moves upon its fore feet, which goes on all four, is unclean to you; every one that touches their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - And he that takes of their dead bodies shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean till evening: these are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - And these are unclean to you of reptiles upon the earth, the weasel, and the mouse, and the lizard,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - These are unclean to you of all the reptiles which are on the earth; every one who touches their carcases shall be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - And every thing on which there shall fall of their dead bodies shall be unclean; ovens and stands for jars shall be broken down: these are unclean, and they shall be unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - But if water be poured on any seed, and one of their dead bodies fall upon it, it is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 - to distinguish between the unclean and the clean; and between those that bring forth alive, such as should be eaten, and those that bring forth alive, such as should not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is a leprosy waxing old in the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall separate him, because he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - And the priest shall look upon the sound flesh, and the sound flesh shall prove him to be unclean; for it is unclean, it is a leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:36 - then the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scurf be spread in the skin, the priest shall not examine concerning the yellow hair, for he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44 - he is a leprous man: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean, his plague is in his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45 - And the leper in whom the plague is, let his garments be ungirt, and his head uncovered; and let him have a covering put upon his mouth, and he shall be called unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - All the days in which the plague shall be upon him, being unclean, he shall be esteemed unclean; he shall dwell apart, his place of sojourn shall be without the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - And the priest shall look upon the plague on the seventh day; and if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in the skin, in whatsoever things skins may be used in their workmanship, the plague is a confirmed leprosy; it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - And the priest shall look upon it after the plague has been washed; and if this, even the plague, has not changed its appearance, and the plague does not spread, it is unclean; it shall be burnt with fire: it is fixed in the garment, in the warp, or in the woof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - then the priest shall give orders, and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and shall cast them out of the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - then the priest shall go in and see if the plague is spread in the house: it is a confirmed leprosy in the house, it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - and of declaring in what day it is unclean, and in what day it shall be purged: this is the law of the leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatever man shall have an issue out of his body, his issue is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - And if a woman have an issue of blood many days, not in the time of her separation; if the blood should also flow after her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - And every bed on which she shall lie all the days of her flux shall be to her as the bed of her separation, and every seat whereon she shall sit shall be unclean according to the uncleanness of her separation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - And this is the law for her that has the issue of blood in her separation, and as to the person who has an issue of seed, in his issue: it is a law for the male and the female, and for the man who shall have lain with her that is set apart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - And ye shall make a distinction between the clean and the unclean cattle, and between clean and unclean birds; and ye shall not defile your souls with cattle, or with birds, or with any creeping things of the earth, which I have separated for you by reason of uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - And the man of the seed of Aaron the priest, if he should have leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - And if it be any unclean beast, of which none are offered as a gift to the Lord, he shall set the beast before the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - Charge the children of Israel, and let them send forth out of the camp every leper, and every one who has an issue of the reins, and every one who is unclean from a [fn]dead body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - And there came men who were unclean by reason of a dead body, and they were not able to keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - And those men said to [fn]Moses, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: shall we therefore fail to offer the gift to the Lord in its season in the midst of the children of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whatever man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or on a journey far off, among you, or among your posterity; he shall then keep the passover to the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - And every thing that opens the womb of all flesh, whatsoever they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be thine: only the first-born of men shall be surely redeemed, and thou shalt redeem the first-born of unclean cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Every one that touches the carcase of the person of a man, if he should have died, and the other not have been purified, has defiled the tabernacle of the Lord: that soul shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15 - And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - And they shall take for the unclean of the burnt ashes of purification, and they shall pour upon them running water into a vessel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - And the clean man shall sprinkle the water on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and the other shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - And whatever man shall be defiled and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the holy things of the Lord, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - And whatsoever the unclean man shall touch shall be unclean, and the soul that touches it shall be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - But thou shalt kill according to all thy desire, and shalt eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he has given thee in every city; the unclean that is within thee and the clean shall eat it on equal terms, as the doe or the stag.

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