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Lexicon :: Strong's H2931 - ṭāmē'

Aa
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 BoxLev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10 - And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5 - And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6 - And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7 - And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 - Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - And when the priest sees the diseased flesh he will say that he is unclean; the diseased flesh is unclean, he is a leper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:36 - Then the priest is to see him: and if the mark is increased, the priest, without looking for the yellow hair, will say that he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44 - He is a leper and unclean; the priest is to say that he is most certainly unclean: the disease is in his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45 - And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - While the disease is on him, he will be unclean. He is unclean: let him keep by himself, living outside the tent-circle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - And he is to see the mark on the seventh day; if the mark is increased in the clothing, or in the threads of the material, or in the leather, whatever the leather is used for, it is the disease biting into it: it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - And if, after the mark has been washed, the priest sees that the colour of it is not changed and it is not increased, it is to be burned in the fire: the disease is working in it, though the damage may be inside or outside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - To make clear when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law about the disease of the leper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 - Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - And if a woman has a flow of blood for a long time, not at the time when she generally has it, or if the flow goes on longer than the normal time, she will be unclean while the flow of blood goes on, as she is at other normal times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - Every bed on which she has been resting will be unclean, as at the times when she normally has a flow of blood, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean, in the same way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - And for her who has a flow of blood, and for any man or woman who has an unclean flow, and for him who has sex relations with a woman when she is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - And if it is any unclean beast, of which offerings are not made to the Lord, then let him take the beast before the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - And if it is an unclean beast, then the owner of it may give money to get it back, in agreement with the value fixed by you, by giving a fifth more; or if it is not taken back, let it be given for money in agreement with your valuing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:2 - Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep 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

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:15 - And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

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