1) to be unclean, become unclean, become impure 1a) (Qal) to be or become unclean 1a1) sexually 1a2) religiously 1a3) ceremonially 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to defile oneself, be defiled 1b1a) sexually 1b1b) by idolatry 1b1c) ceremonially 1b2) to be regarded as unclean 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to defile 1c1a) sexually 1c1b) religiously 1c1c) ceremonially 1c2) to pronounce unclean, declare unclean (ceremonially) 1c3) to profane (God's name) 1d) (Pual) to be defiled 1e) (Hithpael) to be unclean 1f) (Hothpael) to be defiled
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H2930 — טָמֵא
ta.me · to defile · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 34:5 · טִמֵּא֙Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.Genesis 34:13 · טִמֵּ֔אThe sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,Genesis 34:27 · טִמְּא֖וּJacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.Leviticus 5:3 · יִטְמָ֖א“‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.Leviticus 11:24 · תִּטַּמָּ֑אוּ · יִטְמָ֥א“‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 11:25 · וְטָמֵ֥אWhoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 11:26 · יִטְמָֽא׃“‘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.Leviticus 11:27 · יִטְמָ֥אWhatever 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.Leviticus 11:28 · וְטָמֵ֣אHe who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.Leviticus 11:31 · יִטְמָ֥אThese are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 11:32 · יִטְמָ֗א · וְטָמֵ֥אOn whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.Leviticus 11:33 · יִטְמָ֖אEvery earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.Leviticus 11:34 · יִטְמָ֑א · יִטְמָֽא׃All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.Leviticus 11:35 · יִטְמָא֒Everything 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.Leviticus 11:36 · יִטְמָֽא׃Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.Leviticus 11:39 · יִטְמָ֥א“‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 11:40 · וְטָמֵ֣א · וְטָמֵ֥אHe who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 11:43 · תִֽטַּמְּאוּ֙ · וְנִטְמֵתֶ֖םYou shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.Leviticus 11:44 · תְטַמְּאוּ֙For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.Leviticus 12:2 · וְטָֽמְאָה֙ · תִּטְמָֽא׃“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.Leviticus 12:5 · וְטָמְאָ֥הBut if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.Leviticus 13:3 · וְטִמֵּ֥אand the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.Leviticus 13:8 · וְטִמְּא֥וֹThe priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.Leviticus 13:11 · וְטִמְּא֖וֹit is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.Leviticus 13:14 · יִטְמָֽא׃But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.Leviticus 13:15 · וְטִמְּא֑וֹThe priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.Leviticus 13:20 · וְטִמְּא֧וֹand the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.Leviticus 13:22 · וְטִמֵּ֧אIf it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.Leviticus 13:25 · וְטִמֵּ֤אthen the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.Leviticus 13:27 · וְטִמֵּ֤אThe priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.Leviticus 13:30 · וְטִמֵּ֨אthen the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.Leviticus 13:44 · טַמֵּ֧א · יְטַמְּאֶ֛נּוּhe is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.Leviticus 13:46 · יִטְמָ֖אAll 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.Leviticus 13:59 · לְטַמְּאֽוֹ׃ פThis is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.Leviticus 14:36 · יִטְמָ֖אThe priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.Leviticus 14:46 · יִטְמָ֖א“Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:4 · יִטְמָ֑א · יִטְמָֽא׃“‘Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.Leviticus 15:5 · וְטָמֵ֥אWhoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:6 · וְטָמֵ֥אHe who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:7 · וְטָמֵ֥א“‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:8 · וְטָמֵ֥א“‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:9 · יִטְמָֽא׃“‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.Leviticus 15:10 · יִטְמָ֖א · וְטָמֵ֥אWhoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:11 · וְטָמֵ֥א“‘Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:16 · וְטָמֵ֥א“‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:17 · וְטָמֵ֥אEvery garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:18 · וְטָמְא֖וּIf a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:19 · יִטְמָ֥א“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:20 · יִטְמָ֑א · יִטְמָֽא׃“‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.Leviticus 15:21 · וְטָמֵ֥אWhoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:22 · וְטָמֵ֥אWhoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:23 · יִטְמָ֖אIf it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:24 · וְטָמֵ֖א · יִטְמָֽא׃ פ“‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.Leviticus 15:27 · יִטְמָ֑א · וְטָמֵ֥אWhoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:31 · בְּטַמְּאָ֥ם“‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.’”Leviticus 15:32 · לְטָמְאָה־This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;Leviticus 17:15 · וְטָמֵ֥א“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.Leviticus 18:20 · לְטָמְאָה־“‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.Leviticus 18:23 · לְטָמְאָה־“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.Leviticus 18:24 · תִּֽטַּמְּא֖וּ · נִטְמְא֣וּ“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.Leviticus 18:25 · וַתִּטְמָ֣אThe land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.Leviticus 18:27 · וַתִּטְמָ֖א(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);Leviticus 18:28 · בְּטַֽמַּאֲכֶ֖םthat the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.Leviticus 18:30 · תִֽטַּמְּא֖וּTherefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.’”Leviticus 19:31 · לְטָמְאָ֣ה“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.Leviticus 20:3 · טַמֵּא֙I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.Leviticus 20:25 · לְטַמֵּֽא׃“‘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.Leviticus 21:1 · יִטַּמָּ֖אYahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;Leviticus 21:3 · יִטַּמָּֽא׃and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.Leviticus 21:4 · יִטַּמָּ֖אHe shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.Leviticus 21:11 · יִטַּמָּֽא׃neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;Leviticus 22:5 · יִטְמָא־ · יִטְמָא־or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;Leviticus 22:6 · וְטָמְאָ֖הthe person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.Leviticus 22:8 · לְטָמְאָה־That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.Numbers 5:3 · יְטַמְּאוּ֙Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”Numbers 5:13 · נִטְמָ֑אָהand a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;Numbers 5:14 · נִטְמָ֑אָה · נִטְמָֽאָה׃and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled:Numbers 5:20 · נִטְמֵ֑אתBut if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:”Numbers 5:27 · נִטְמְאָה֮When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.Numbers 5:28 · נִטְמְאָה֙If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.Numbers 5:29 · וְנִטְמָֽאָה׃“‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;Numbers 6:7 · יִטַּמָּ֥אHe shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God is on his head.Numbers 6:9 · וְטִמֵּ֖א“‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.Numbers 6:12 · טָמֵ֖אHe shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.Numbers 19:7 · וְטָמֵ֥אThen the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.Numbers 19:8 · וְטָמֵ֖אHe who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.Numbers 19:10 · וְטָמֵ֖אHe who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.Numbers 19:11 · וְטָמֵ֖א“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:Numbers 19:13 · טִמֵּ֔אWhoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.Numbers 19:14 · יִטְמָ֖א“This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.Numbers 19:16 · יִטְמָ֖א“Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.Numbers 19:20 · יִטְמָא֙ · טִמֵּ֗אBut 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 Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.Numbers 19:21 · יִטְמָ֖אIt shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.Numbers 19:22 · יִטְמָ֑א · תִּטְמָ֥א“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”Numbers 35:34 · תְטַמֵּ֣אYou shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.’”Deuteronomy 21:23 · תְטַמֵּא֙his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.Deuteronomy 24:4 · הֻטַּמָּ֔אָהher former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.2 Kings 23:8 · וַיְטַמֵּ֣אHe brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.2 Kings 23:10 · וְטִמֵּ֣אHe defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.2 Kings 23:13 · טִמֵּ֖אThe the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.2 Kings 23:16 · וַֽיְטַמְּאֵ֑הוּAs Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.2 Chronicles 36:14 · וַֽיְטַמְּאוּ֙Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.Psalm 79:1 · טִ֭מְּאוּA Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.Psalm 106:39 · וַיִּטְמְא֥וּThus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.Isaiah 30:22 · וְטִמֵּאתֶ֗םYou shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”Jeremiah 2:7 · וַתְּטַמְּא֣וּI brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.Jeremiah 2:23 · נִטְמֵ֗אתִי“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;Jeremiah 7:30 · לְטַמְּאֽוֹ׃For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.Jeremiah 32:34 · לְטַמְּאֽוֹ׃But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.Hosea 5:3 · נִטְמָ֖אI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.Hosea 6:10 · נִטְמָ֖אIn the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.Hosea 9:4 · יִטַמָּ֑אוּThey won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.Micah 2:10 · טָמְאָ֛הArise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.Haggai 2:13 · הֲיִטְמָ֑א · יִטְמָֽא׃Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”