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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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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:5; 34:5; 34:13; 34:27

Leviticus

5:3; 5:3; 11:24; 11:24; 11:24; 11:25; 11:25; 11:26; 11:27; 11:27; 11:27; 11:28; 11:28; 11:31; 11:31; 11:32; 11:32; 11:33; 11:34; 11:35; 11:36; 11:39; 11:40; 11:40; 11:43; 11:43; 11:43; 11:44; 12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 12:5; 13:3; 13:8; 13:8; 13:11; 13:14; 13:15; 13:20; 13:22; 13:25; 13:27; 13:30; 13:44; 13:44; 13:46; 13:59; 14:36; 14:46; 14:46; 15:4; 15:4; 15:5; 15:6; 15:7; 15:8; 15:9; 15:10; 15:11; 15:16; 15:17; 15:18; 15:18; 15:19; 15:20; 15:21; 15:22; 15:23; 15:24; 15:24; 15:27; 15:27; 15:31; 15:31; 15:32; 15:32; 17:15; 17:15; 18:20; 18:23; 18:24; 18:24; 18:25; 18:27; 18:28; 18:30; 19:31; 20:3; 20:25; 21:1; 21:1; 21:3; 21:4; 21:11; 22:5; 22:5; 22:6; 22:6; 22:8

Numbers

5:3; 5:13; 5:13; 5:14; 5:20; 5:27; 5:27; 5:28; 5:28; 5:29; 6:7; 6:9; 6:12; 19:7; 19:8; 19:10; 19:11; 19:13; 19:14; 19:16; 19:20; 19:20; 19:21; 19:22; 19:22; 35:34

Deuteronomy

21:23; 24:4

2 Kings

23:8; 23:8; 23:10; 23:13; 23:16

2 Chronicles

36:14

Job

18:3

Psalms

79:1; 106:39; 106:39

Isaiah

30:22

Jeremiah

2:7; 2:23; 2:23; 7:30; 32:34

Ezekiel

4:14; 5:11; 5:11; 9:7; 9:7; 14:11; 14:11; 18:6; 18:11; 18:15; 20:7; 20:18; 20:26; 20:30; 20:30; 20:31; 20:31; 20:43; 22:3; 22:4; 22:4; 22:11; 23:7; 23:13; 23:17; 23:17; 23:30; 23:38; 33:26; 36:17; 36:18; 37:23; 37:23; 43:7; 43:8; 44:25; 44:25; 44:25

Hosea

5:3; 5:3; 6:10; 6:10; 9:4; 9:4

Micah

2:10

Haggai

2:13

H2930

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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 3 / 3 (2Ki 23:16–Hag 2:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent men and took the bones from the graves, and burned them on the altar and defiled H2930 it in accordance with the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, the one who proclaimed these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled H2930 the house of the LORD which He had sanctified in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:1 -

A Psalm of Asaph.

God, the nations have [fn]invaded Your inheritance;

They have defiled H2930 Your holy temple;

They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:39 -

So they became H2930 unclean H2930 in their [fn]practices,

And [fn]were unfaithful in their deeds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And you will desecrate H2930 your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to [fn]them, “Be gone!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 -

“I brought you into the fruitful land

To eat its fruit and its good things.

But you came and defiled H2930 My land,

And you made My inheritance an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23 -

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled H2930,

I have not gone after the Baals’?

Look at your way in the valley!

Know what you have done!

You are a swift young camel running about senselessly on her ways,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:30 -

“For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the LORD. “They have put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile H2930 it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:34 - “But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile H2930 it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - But I said, “Oh, Lord [fn]GOD! Behold, [fn]I have never been H2930 defiled H2930; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - ‘Therefore as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘Because you have defiled H2930 My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, I definitely will also withdraw and My eye will have no pity, and I also will not spare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - He also said to them, “Defile H2930 the [fn]temple and fill the courtyards with the dead. Go out!” So they went out and struck and killed the people in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11 - in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile H2930 themselves with all their offenses. So they will be My people, and I shall be their God,”’ declares the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - if he does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile H2930 his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:11 - (though he himself did not do any of these things), that is, he even eats at the mountain shrines, and defiles H2930 his neighbor’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - “He does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; he has not defiled H2930 his neighbor’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - “And I said to them, ‘Throw away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile H2930 yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 -

“Instead, I said to their [fn]children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile H2930 yourselves with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26 - and I pronounced H2930 them unclean H2930 because of their gifts, in that they made all [fn]their firstborn pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:30 - “Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “Will you defile H2930 yourselves in the way of your fathers and adulterously pursue their detestable things?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - “And [fn]when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, you are defiling H2930 yourselves with all your idols to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “I certainly will not be inquired of by you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:43 - “And there you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you have defiled H2930 yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own [fn]sight for all the evil things that you have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - “And you shall say, ‘This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: “A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time is coming; and a city that makes idols, contrary to her own good, for defilement H2930!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - “You have become guilty by [fn]the blood which you have shed, and you have become H2930 defiled H2930 by your idols which you have made. So you have brought your days closer and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a disgrace to the nations, and an object of mocking to all the lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - “And one has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another has outrageously defiled H2930 his daughter-in-law, and another among you has sexually abused his sister, his father’s daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - “She bestowed her [fn]obscene practices on them, all of whom were the choicest [fn]men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled H2930 herself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:13 - “And I saw that she had defiled H2930 herself; they both took [fn]the same way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - “And the [fn]Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled H2930 her with their obscene practice. And when she had been H2930 defiled H2930 by them, [fn]she turned away from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - ‘These things will be done to you because you have adulterously pursued the nations, because you have defiled H2930 yourself with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:38 - “Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled H2930 My sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned My Sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:26 - “You [fn]rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles H2930 his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:17 - “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled H2930 it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:18 - “Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled H2930 it with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23 - “They will no longer defile H2930 themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their offenses; but I will rescue them from all their [fn]dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile H2930 My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the [fn]corpses of their kings [fn]when they die,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8 - by putting their threshold by My threshold, and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have defiled H2930 My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. So I have consumed them in My anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:25 - “[fn]They shall not go to a dead person to defile H2930 themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile H2930 themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:3 -

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;

Because now, Ephraim, you have been unfaithful,

Israel has defiled H2930 itself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10 -

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;

Ephraim’s infidelity is there, Israel has defiled H2930 itself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:4 -

They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD,

Nor will [fn]their sacrifices please Him.

Their bread will be to them like [fn]mourners’ bread;

All who eat it will be defiled H2930,

Because their bread will be for [fn]themselves alone;

It will not enter the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:10 -

“Arise and go,

For this is no place of rest

Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction,

A painful destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:13 - Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean from a [fn]corpse touches any of these things, will the latter become H2930 unclean H2930?” And the priests answered, “It will become H2930 unclean H2930.”

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