טָמֵא tame

Hebrew word for “unclean” · Strong’s H2931 · used 88 times in 78 verses

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Meaning

1) unclean, impure; 1a) ethically and religiously; 1b) ritually; 1c) of places

How it is translated

Glosses given for tame in context, with how often each is used:

• unclean 63
• unclean thing 10
• unclean person 4
• person unclean 3
• unclean! 2
• unclean woman 1
• thing unclean 1
• like unclean person 1
• unclean things 1
• woman unclean 1
• unclean food 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 11 (13), Leviticus 13 (8), Numbers 19 (6), Leviticus 14 (5), Leviticus 15 (4), Deuteronomy 14 (4), Numbers 9 (3), Ezekiel 22 (3), Leviticus 7 (2), Leviticus 27 (2)

Forms

• טמא 45
• הטמא 11
• טמאה 9
• טמאים 8
• הטמאים 2
• וטמא 2
• הטמאה 2
• טמאת 2
• וטמאים 1
• לטמאה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tame more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• טָהוֹר tahor “pure” 13
• כֶם khem “you” 19
• נָגַע naga “to touch” 14
• טָמֵא tame “to defile” 14
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 17
• גֵּרָה gerah “cud” 7
• פָּרַס paras “to divide” 7
• פַּרְסָה parsah “hoof” 7
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 13
• נְבֵלָה nevelah “carcass” 7
• נֶגַע nega “plague” 7
• נִדָּה niddah “impurity” 6

Key verses

The verses using tame that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 13:45 — And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean,…
• Job 14:4 — Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Ecclesiastes 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; to him that…
• Isaiah 6:5 — Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the…
• Isaiah 35:8 — And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the…
• Isaiah 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…
• Isaiah 52:11 — Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
• Isaiah 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean 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…
• Jeremiah 19:13 — And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they…
• Ezekiel 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…
• Hosea 9:3 — They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
• Amos 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…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.