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Strong's H2930: טָמֵא (ṭâmêʼ) Definition

Strong's number
H2930
Lemma
טָמֵא
Transliteration
ṭâmêʼ
Pronunciation
taw-may'
Strong's definition
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated) defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, [idiom] utterly. a primitive root;

142 instances of the word טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ (H2930)


  • Leviticus 17:15 - And every soul that eateth that which died of itself or that which was torn with beasts whether it be one of your own country or a stranger he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even then shall he be clean

  • Leviticus 18:20 - wife with thy neighbour's Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally to defile

  • Leviticus 18:23 - a beast Neither shalt thou lie to defile thyself therewith neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto it is confusion

  • Leviticus 18:24 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things not ye yourselves in any of these things Defile for in all these the nations which I cast out before

  • Leviticus 18:25 - is defiled And the land therefore I do visit the iniquity itself vomiteth out And the land her inhabitants

  • Leviticus 18:27 - abominations For all these done of the land which were before is defiled of the land

  • Leviticus 18:28 - it as it spued out That the land also when ye defile it as it spued out the nations that were before

  • Leviticus 18:30 - Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance that ye commit customs not any one of these abominable that ye commit before you and that ye defile not yourselves therein I am the LORD your God

  • Leviticus 19:31 - Regard not them that have familiar spirits after wizards neither seek to be defiled by them I am the LORD your God

  • Leviticus 20:3 - And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people of his seed And I will set unto Molech to defile my sanctuary and to profane name my holy

  • Leviticus 20:25 - Ye shall therefore put difference beasts and clean and between unclean fowls and between unclean and clean abominable and ye shall not make your souls beasts fowls or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground Ye shall therefore put difference from you as unclean

  • Leviticus 21:1 - Speak And the LORD unto Moses Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron Speak for the dead unto them There shall none be defiled among his people

  • Leviticus 21:3 - And for his sister a virgin that is nigh unto him which hath had no husband for her may he be defiled

  • Leviticus 21:4 - But he shall not defile himself being a chief man among his people to profane

  • Leviticus 21:11 - body to any dead Neither shall he go in himself for his father or for his mother nor defile

  • Leviticus 22:5 - Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing of whom he may take uncleanness or a man of whom he may take uncleanness whatsoever uncleanness

  • Leviticus 22:6 - The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even and shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash his flesh with water

  • Leviticus 22:8 - That which dieth of itself or is torn with beasts he shall not eat to defile himself therewith I am the LORD

  • Micah 2:10 - Arise for this is not your rest because it is polluted it shall destroy destruction you even with a sore

  • Numbers 5:3 - Both male and female shall ye put without not their camps shall ye put them that they defile not their camps whereof I dwell in the midst