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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

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Strong's Number H2931 matches the Hebrew טָמֵא (ṭāmē'),
which occurs 88 times in 78 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (Deu 12:22–Hag 2:14)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean H2931 and the clean shall eat of them alike.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:7 - Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean H2931 unto you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:8 - And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean H2931 unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:10 - And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean H2931 unto you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19 - And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean H2931 unto you: they shall not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean H2931 and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:14 - I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean H2931 use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, H2931 then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:4 - Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean H2931 thing:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19 - And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean H2931 in any thing should enter in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:4 - Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? H2931 not one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; H2931 to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:5 - Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean H2931 lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean H2931 lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8 - And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean H2931 shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1 - Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. H2931

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:11 - Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean H2931 thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:6 - But we are all as an unclean H2931 thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled H2931 as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; H2931 depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13 - And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled H2931 bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:5 - Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous H2931 and much vexed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:10 - In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. H2931

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:26 - Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean H2931 and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:23 - And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean H2931 and the clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:3 - They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean H2931 things in Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted H2931 land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:13 - Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean H2931 by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:14 - Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. H2931

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