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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
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - Or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcase of an unclean beast, or the carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of an unclean crawling thing, and it be hid from him, -- he also is unclean and guilty;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - And the flesh that toucheth anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. And as to the flesh, all that are clean may eat the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - And if any one touch anything unclean, the uncleanness of man, or unclean beast, or any unclean abomination, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offering, which is for Jehovah, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10 - that ye may put difference between the holy and the unholy, and between unclean and clean,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - Only these shall ye not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with cloven hoofs: the camel, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs -- it shall be unclean unto you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5 - and the rock-badger, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs -- it shall be unclean unto you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6 - and the hare, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs -- it shall be unclean unto you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7 - and the swine, for it hath cloven hoofs, and feet quite split open, but it cheweth not the cud -- it shall be unclean unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch: they shall be unclean unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - Every beast that hath cloven hoofs, but not feet quite split open, nor cheweth the cud, shall be unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - And whatever goeth on its paws, among all manner of beasts that go upon all four, those are unclean unto you: whoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - And he that carrieth their carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even: they shall be unclean unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - And these shall be unclean unto you among the crawling things which crawl on the earth: the mole, and the field-mouse, and the lizard, after its kind;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - These shall be unclean unto you among all that crawl: whoever toucheth them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - And everything where upon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; oven and hearth shall be broken down: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - but if water have been put on the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 - to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that is to be eaten and the beast that is not to be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and shall pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:36 - and the priest shall look on him, and behold, the scall hath spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair: he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:44

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45 - And as to the leper in whom the sore is, -- his garments shall be rent, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall put a covering on his beard, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean!

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - All the days that the sore shall be in him he shall be unclean: he is unclean; he shall dwell apart; outside the camp shall his dwelling be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - And he shall see the sore on the seventh day: if the sore have spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in a skin, in any work that may be made of skin, the sore is a corroding leprosy: it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - And the priest shall look on the sore after the washing, and behold, if the sore have not changed its appearance, and the sore have not spread, it is unclean: thou shalt burn it with fire: it is a fretting sore on what is threadbare or where the nap is gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:40

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar that they have scraped off, out of the city in an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - then the priest shall come, and when he looketh, and behold, the plague hath spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And they shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house, and shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - to teach when there is uncleanness, and when it is purified: this is the law of leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man have a flux from his flesh, because of his flux he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - And if a woman have her flux of blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if she have the flux beyond the time of her separation, all the days of the flux of her uncleanness shall she be as in the days of her separation: she is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her flux shall be unto her as the bed of her separation; and every object on which she sitteth shall be unclean, according to the uncleanness of her separation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - and for a woman who is sick in her separation, and for him that hath his flux; for the man and for the woman, and for him that lieth with her that is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - And ye shall make a separation between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean, and ye shall not make yourselves an abomination by beast, or by fowl, or by anything that creepeth on the ground which I have separated for you, declaring it as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - Whatsoever man of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a flux, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. And he that toucheth any one that is unclean by a dead person, or a man whose seed of copulation hath passed from him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not bring an offering unto Jehovah, then he shall present the beast before the priest;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - But if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall ransom it according to thy valuation, and shall add a fifth of it thereto; and if it be not redeemed, it shall be sold according to thy valuation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by a dead person:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - And there were men, who were unclean through the dead body of a man, and could not hold the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - And those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not present the offering of Jehovah at its set time among the children of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your generations be unclean by reason of a dead body or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall hold the passover to Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - Everything that breaketh open the womb of all flesh, which they present to Jehovah, of men or of beasts, shall be thine; nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou in any case ransom, and the firstborn of unclean beasts shalt thou ransom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Whoever toucheth a dead person, the dead body of a man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; for the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him: he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15 - And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - And they shall take for the unclean of the ashes of the purification-offering that hath been burned, and shall put running water thereon in a vessel;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - and the clean shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and he shall purify him on the seventh day; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - And the man that is unclean, and doth not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, for he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled on him: he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - And whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - Nevertheless, according to all the desire of thy soul thou mayest slay and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and the hart.

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