טֻמְאָה tumah

Hebrew word for “uncleanness” · Strong’s H2932 · used 36 times in 31 verses

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Meaning

1) uncleanness; 1a) sexual; 1b) of filthy mass; 1c) ethical and religious; 1d) ritual; 1e) local (of nations)

How it is translated

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

• uncleanness 29
• uncleannesses 5
• like the uncleanness 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 15 (5), Ezekiel 36 (3), Leviticus 7 (2), Leviticus 16 (2), Leviticus 22 (2), Judges 13 (2), Ezekiel 24 (2), Leviticus 5 (1), Leviticus 14 (1), Leviticus 18 (1)

Forms

• טמאתו 5
• טמאתה 5
• מטמאת 3
• טמאה 3
• בטמאת 2
• וטמאתו 2
• כטמאת 2
• בטמאתם 2
• הטמאה 2
• טמאותיכם 2

Words used with it

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

• נִדָּה niddah “impurity” 6
• זוֹב zov “discharge” 4
• טָהֵר taher “be pure” 5
• טָמֵא tame “to defile” 5
• אוֹ o “or” 5
• טָמֵא tame “unclean” 4
• כָּרַת karat “to cut” 5
• נָגַע naga “to touch” 4
• אָדָם adam “man” 5
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 5
• כִּפֶּר kipher “to atone” 3
• מִן־ min “from” 5

Key verses

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

• Leviticus 7:21 — Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of…
• Leviticus 15:31 — Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
• Numbers 19:13 — Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from…
• Ezra 9:11 — Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people…
• Lamentations 1:9 — Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for…
• Ezekiel 22:15 — And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
• Ezekiel 24:11 — Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it…
• Ezekiel 24:13 — In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused…
• Ezekiel 36:17 — Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness…
• Ezekiel 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Ezekiel 36:29 — I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
• Zechariah 13:2 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be…

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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.