H2930 טָמֵא
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 161 KJV occurrences
טָמֵא
ṭâmêʼ · taw-may'
Definition
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
KJV Renderings
defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, [idiom] utterly.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 161)
- Genesis 34:5And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
- Leviticus 11:40And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 14:36Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
- Leviticus 15:23And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 21:3And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
- Numbers 19:10And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
- Isaiah 30:22Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
- Ezekiel 22:11And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.