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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 anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of shalom offerings, which belong to the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10 - and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - "'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5 - The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6 - The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7 - The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - "'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - "'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the eretz: the kholed, the rat, any kind of tzav,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 - to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the Kohen shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - The Kohen shall examine the raw flesh, and 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 - then the Kohen shall examine him; and, behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the Kohen shall not look for the 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 Kohen shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45 - "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - Then the Kohen shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:40

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:41

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - then the Kohen shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 - "Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - "'If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - "'Whoever of the seed of Aharon is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - If it be any unclean animal, of which they do not offer an offering to the LORD, then he shall set the animal before the Kohen;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - If it be of an unclean animal, then he shall ransom it according to your estimation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your estimation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - "Command the children of Yisra'el that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Pesach on that day, and they came before Moshe and before Aharon on that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Yisra'el?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - "Say to the children of Yisra'el, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Pesach to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal shall be your: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purifies himself, defiles the tent of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Yisra'el: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15 - Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, 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 - But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

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