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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - 'Or when a person cometh against any thing unclean, or against a carcase of an unclean beast, or against a carcase of unclean cattle, or against a carcase of an unclean teeming creature, and it hath been hidden from him, and he unclean, and guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - 'And the flesh which cometh against any unclean thing is not eaten; with fire it is burnt; as to the flesh, every clean one doth eat of the flesh;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - 'And when a person cometh against any thing unclean, of the uncleanness of man, or of the uncleanness of beasts, or of any unclean teeming creature, and hath eaten of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offerings which are Jehovah's, even that person hath been cut off from his people.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10 - so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - 'Only, this ye do not eat -- of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof -- the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof not dividing -- it is unclean to you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5 - and the rabbit, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof it divideth not -- unclean it is to you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6 - and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof hath not divided -- unclean it is to you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7 - and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up -- unclean it is to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - 'Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come -- unclean they are to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - even every beast which is dividing the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, and the cud is not bringing up -- unclean they are to you; any one who is coming against them is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - 'And any one going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four -- unclean they are to you; any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean until the evening;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening -- unclean they are to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - 'And this is to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - these are the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - and anything on which any of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they are, yea, unclean they are to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - and when water is put on the seed, and any of its carcase hath fallen on it -- unclean it is to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 - to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - an old leprosy it is in the skin of his flesh, and the priest hath pronounced him unclean; he doth 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 hath seen the raw flesh, and hath pronounced 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 hath seen him, and lo, the scall hath spread in the skin, the priest seeketh not for the shining 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 doth pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45 - 'As to the leper in whom is the plague, his garments are rent, and his head is uncovered, and he covereth over the upper lip, and 'Unclean! unclean!' he calleth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - all the days that the plague is in him he is unclean; he is unclean, alone he doth dwell, at the outside of the camp is his dwelling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - and he hath seen the plague on the seventh day, and the plague hath spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, of all that is made of skin for work; the plague is a fretting leprosy, it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - And the priest hath seen that which hath the plague after it hath been washed, and lo, the plague hath not changed its aspect, and the plague hath not spread, -- it is unclean; with fire thou dost burn it; it is a fretting in its back-part or in its front-part.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - and the priest hath commanded, and they have drawn out the stones in which the plague is, and have cast them unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - and the house he doth cause to be scraped within round about, and they have poured out the clay which they have scraped off, at the outside of the city, at an unclean place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - then hath the priest come in and seen, and lo, the plague hath spread in the house; it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - 'And he hath broken down the house, its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house, and he hath brought them forth unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - to direct in the day of being unclean, and in the day of being clean; this is the law of the leprosy.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 - 'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and ye have said unto them, When there is an issue out of the flesh of any man, for his issue he is unclean;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - 'And when a woman's issue of blood floweth many days within the time of her separation, or when it floweth over her separation -- all the days of the issue of her uncleanness are as the days of her separation; she is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - 'All the bed on which she lieth all the days of her issue is as the bed of her separation to her, and all the vessel on which she sitteth is unclean as the uncleanness of her separation;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - and of her who is sick in her separation, and of him who hath an issue, the issue of a male or of a female, and of a man who lieth with an unclean woman.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - 'And ye have made separation between the pure beasts and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the pure, and ye do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by fowl, or by anything which creepeth on the ground which I have separated to you for unclean;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - 'Any man of the seed of Aaron, and is leprous or hath an issue -- of the holy things he doth not eat till that he is clean; and he who is coming against any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose seed of copulation goeth out from him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - 'And if it is any unclean beast of which they do not bring near an offering to Jehovah, then he hath presented the beast before the priest,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - And if among the unclean beasts, then he hath ransomed it at thy valuation, and he hath added its fifth to it; and if it is not redeemed, then it hath been sold at thy valuation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - 'Command the sons of Israel, and they send out of the camp every leper, and every one with an issue, and every one defiled by a body;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the passover on that day, and they come near before Moses, and before Aaron, on that day,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - and those men say unto him, 'We are defiled by the body of a man; why are we withheld so as not to bring near the offering of Jehovah in its appointed season, in the midst of the sons of Israel?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - 'Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Though any man is unclean by a body or in a distant journey (of you or of your generations), yet he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - every one opening a womb of all flesh which they bring near to Jehovah, among man and among beast, is thine; only, thou dost certainly ransom the first-born of man, and the firstling of the unclean beast thou dost ransom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Any one who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dieth, and cleanseth not himself -- the tabernacle of Jehovah he hath defiled, and that person hath been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness is still 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 of thread upon it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - and they have taken for the unclean person of the ashes of the burning of the cleansing, and he hath put upon it running water unto a vessel;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - 'And the clean hath sprinkled it on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day, and hath cleansed him on the seventh day, and he hath washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and hath been clean in the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - 'And the man who is unclean, and doth not cleanse himself, even that person hath been cut off from the midst of the assembly; for the sanctuary of Jehovah he hath defiled; water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - and all against which the unclean person cometh is unclean, and the person who is coming against it is unclean till the evening.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - 'Only, with all the desire of thy soul thou dost sacrifice, and hast eaten flesh according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which He hath given to thee, in all thy gates; the unclean and the clean do eat it, as of the roe, and as of the hart.

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