טָמֵא
to be unclean
also: become unclean, become impure fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘sexually’
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘sexually Gn 34’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘sexually’
- Hithpael
- The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 43 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 35 times (22%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 22 times (14%)
- Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 10 times (6%)
- Verb, Piel, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 10 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 7 times (4%)
- Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 7 times (4%)
- Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct 7 times (4%)
- Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 5 times (3%)
+35 more forms (59 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 162 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2930 appears — 142 distinct verses across 13 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 34:5 טִמֵּא֙ Piel pf 3ms Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
- Genesis 34:13 טִמֵּ֔א Piel pf 3ms The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
- Genesis 34:27 טִמְּא֖וּ Piel pf 3cp Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Leviticus 71 verses
- Leviticus 5:3 יִטְמָ֖א Qal impf 3ms "'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 Hithpael impf 2mp Qal impf 3ms "'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 11:25 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 11:26 יִטְמָֽא Qal impf 3ms "'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 יִטְמָ֥א Qal impf 3ms Whatever 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 וְ/טָמֵ֣א conj + Qal wpf 3ms He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:31 יִטְמָ֥א Qal impf 3ms These 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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א Qal impf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms On 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 יִטְמָ֖א Qal impf 3ms Every 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 Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms 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 יִטְמָא֒ Qal impf 3ms Everything 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 Qal impf 3ms 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 Qal impf 3ms "'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 11:40 וְ/טָמֵ֣א וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms He 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 וְ/נִטְמֵתֶ֖ם Hithpael impf 2mp conj + Niphal wpf 2mp You 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 תְטַמְּאוּ֙ Piel juss 2mp For 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 וְ/טָֽמְאָה֙ תִּטְמָֽא conj + Qal wpf 3fs Qal impf 3fs "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 וְ/טָמְאָ֥ה conj + Qal wpf 3fs But 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 וְ/טִמֵּ֥א conj + Piel wpf 3ms and 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 וְ/טִמְּא֥/וֹ conj + Piel wpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms The 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 וְ/טִמְּא֖/וֹ conj + Piel wpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms it 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 Qal impf 3ms But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 13:15 וְ/טִמְּא֑/וֹ conj + Piel wpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
- Leviticus 13:20 וְ/טִמְּא֧/וֹ conj + Piel wpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms and the priest shall examine it; and, behold, if the appearance of it is lower than the skin, and the hair of it 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 וְ/טִמֵּ֧א conj + Piel wpf 3ms If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.
- Leviticus 13:25 וְ/טִמֵּ֤א conj + Piel wpf 3ms then the priest shall examine it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and the appearance of it 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 וְ/טִמֵּ֤א conj + Piel wpf 3ms The 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 וְ/טִמֵּ֨א conj + Piel wpf 3ms then the priest shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the appearance of it 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 יְטַמְּאֶ֛/נּוּ Piel inf.abs Piel impf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
- Leviticus 13:46 יִטְמָ֖א Qal impf 3ms All 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 לְ/טַמְּאֽ/וֹ prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms This 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 יִטְמָ֖א Qal impf 3ms The 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 Qal impf 3ms "Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:4 יִטְמָ֑א יִטְמָֽא Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms "'Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:5 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:6 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms He 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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms "'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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms "'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 Qal impf 3ms "'Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:10 יִטְמָ֖א וְ/טָמֵ֥א Qal impf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms Whoever 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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms "'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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms "'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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:18 וְ/טָמְא֖וּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp If 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 Qal impf 3ms "'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 Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms "'Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:21 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:22 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
- Leviticus 15:23 יִטְמָ֖א Qal impf 3ms If 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 וְ/טָמֵ֖א יִטְמָֽא conj + Qal wpf 3ms Qal impf 3ms "'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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א Qal impf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms Whoever 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 בְּ/טַמְּאָ֥/ם prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp "'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 לְ/טָמְאָה prep + Qal inf.cs 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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms "'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 לְ/טָמְאָה prep + Qal inf.cs "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
- Leviticus 18:23 לְ/טָמְאָה prep + Qal inf.cs "'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 Hithpael juss 2mp Niphal pf 3cp "'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 וַ/תִּטְמָ֣א conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.
- Leviticus 18:27 וַ/תִּטְמָ֖א conj + Qal wimpf 3fs (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);
- Leviticus 18:28 בְּ/טַֽמַּאֲ/כֶ֖ם prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
- Leviticus 18:30 תִֽטַּמְּא֖וּ Hithpael impf 2mp Therefore you shall keep my charge, 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 לְ/טָמְאָ֣ה prep + Qal inf.cs "'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 טַמֵּא֙ Piel inf.cs I 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 לְ/טַמֵּֽא prep + Piel inf.cs "'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 יִטַּמָּ֖א Hithpael impf 3ms Yahweh 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 Hithpael impf 3ms and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
- Leviticus 21:4 יִטַּמָּ֖א Hithpael impf 3ms He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
- Leviticus 21:11 יִטַּמָּֽא Hithpael impf 3ms neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
- Leviticus 22:5 יִטְמָא יִטְמָא Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms 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 וְ/טָמְאָ֖ה conj + Qal wpf 3fs the 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 לְ/טָמְאָה prep + Qal inf.cs That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
Numbers 21 verses
- Numbers 5:3 יְטַמְּאוּ֙ Piel impf 3mp Both male and female shall you put out, outside of the camp shall you put them; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."
- Numbers 5:13 נִטְמָ֑אָה Niphal pf 3fs and 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 Niphal pf 3fs Niphal pf 3fs 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 נִטְמֵ֑את Niphal pf 2fs But 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 נִטְמְאָה֮ Niphal pf 3fs When 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 נִטְמְאָה֙ Niphal pf 3fs If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- Numbers 5:29 וְ/נִטְמָֽאָה conj + Niphal wpf 3fs "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;
- Numbers 6:7 יִטַּמָּ֥א Hithpael impf 3ms He 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 וְ/טִמֵּ֖א conj + Piel wpf 3ms "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 טָמֵ֖א Qal pf 3ms He 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 וְ/טָמֵ֥א conj + Qal wpf 3ms Then 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 even.
- Numbers 19:8 וְ/טָמֵ֖א conj + Qal wpf 3ms He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
- Numbers 19:10 וְ/טָמֵ֖א conj + Qal wpf 3ms He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: 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 וְ/טָמֵ֖א conj + Qal wpf 3ms He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
- Numbers 19:13 טִמֵּ֔א Piel pf 3ms Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purifies himself, defiles the tent 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 Qal impf 3ms 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 Qal impf 3ms 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 טִמֵּ֗א Qal impf 3ms Piel pf 3ms But 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 יִטְמָ֖א Qal impf 3ms It 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 even.
- Numbers 19:22 יִטְמָ֑א תִּטְמָ֥א Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3fs Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until even.
- Numbers 35:34 תְטַמֵּ֣א Piel impf 2ms You 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 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 21:23 תְטַמֵּא֙ Piel impf 2ms his 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 הֻטַּמָּ֔אָה Hothpaal pf 3fs her 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 4 verses
- 2 Kings 23:8 וַ/יְטַמֵּ֣א conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He 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 וְ/טִמֵּ֣א conj + Piel pf 3ms He 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 טִמֵּ֖א Piel pf 3ms 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, did the king defile.
- 2 Kings 23:16 וַֽ/יְטַמְּאֵ֑/הוּ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms As 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 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 4 verses
- Jeremiah 2:7 וַ/תְּטַמְּא֣וּ conj + Piel wimpf 2mp I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
- Jeremiah 2:23 נִטְמֵ֗אתִי Niphal pf 1cs 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 לְ/טַמְּאֽ/וֹ prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms 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 לְ/טַמְּאֽ/וֹ prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
Ezekiel 28 verses
- Ezekiel 4:14 מְטֻמָּאָ֑ה Pual ptcp.pass fs Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
- Ezekiel 5:11 טִמֵּ֔את Piel pf 2fs Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you]; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
- Ezekiel 9:7 טַמְּא֣וּ Piel impv 2mp He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.
- Ezekiel 14:11 יִטַּמְּא֥וּ Hithpael impf 3mp that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 18:6 טִמֵּ֔א Piel pf 3ms and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,
- Ezekiel 18:11 טִמֵּֽא Piel pf 3ms and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,
- Ezekiel 18:15 טִמֵּֽא Piel pf 3ms who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,
- Ezekiel 20:7 תִּטַּמָּ֑אוּ Hithpael juss 2mp I said to them, Cast you away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.
- Ezekiel 20:18 תִּטַּמָּֽאוּ Hithpael juss 2mp I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't you walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
- Ezekiel 20:26 וָ/אֲטַמֵּ֤א conj + Piel wimpf 1cs and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 20:30 נִטְמְאִ֑ים Niphal ptcp.pass mp Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play you the prostitute after their abominations?
- Ezekiel 20:31 נִטְמְאִ֤֨ים Niphal ptcp.pass mp and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;
- Ezekiel 20:43 נִטְמֵאתֶ֖ם Niphal pf 2mp There shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
- Ezekiel 22:3 לְ/טָמְאָֽה prep + Qal inf.cs You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
- Ezekiel 22:4 טָמֵ֔את Qal pf 2fs You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
- Ezekiel 22:11 טִמֵּ֣א Piel pf 3ms One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
- Ezekiel 23:7 נִטְמָֽאָה Niphal pf 3fs She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
- Ezekiel 23:13 נִטְמָ֑אָה Niphal pf 3fs I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
- Ezekiel 23:17 וַ/יְטַמְּא֥וּ וַ/תִּ֨טְמָא conj + Piel wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
- Ezekiel 23:30 נִטְמֵ֖את Niphal pf 2fs These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.
- Ezekiel 23:38 טִמְּא֤וּ Piel pf 3cp Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 33:26 טִמֵּאתֶ֑ם Piel pf 2mp You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
- Ezekiel 36:17 וַ/יְטַמְּא֣וּ conj + Piel wimpf 3mp Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
- Ezekiel 36:18 טִמְּאֽוּ/הָ Piel pf 3cp + sfx pers 3fs Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;
- Ezekiel 37:23 יִֽטַמְּא֣וּ Hithpael impf 3mp neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 43:7 יְטַמְּא֣וּ Piel impf 3mp He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
- Ezekiel 43:8 וְ/טִמְּא֣וּ conj + Piel pf 3cp in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my door-post, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
- Ezekiel 44:25 לְ/טָמְאָ֑ה יִטַּמָּֽאוּ prep + Qal inf.cs Hithpael impf 3mp They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 5:3 נִטְמָ֖א Niphal pf 3ms I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
- Hosea 6:10 נִטְמָ֖א Niphal pf 3ms In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
- Hosea 9:4 יִטַמָּ֑אוּ Hithpael impf 3mp They 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 1 verse
Haggai 1 verse
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The Hebrew verb טמא centers on the idea of “to be unclean.” The word gravitates to Leviticus (50%), then Ezekiel and Numbers. It turns up in 142 verses across 13 books, a common footprint. The verb spans 6 stems, from Qal to Niphal. Older and newer Bibles part ways — “shall be unclean” in the King James Version, “will be unclean” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. Dig into 142-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
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About this word
Strong's H2930 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 142
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 142 distinct verses.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #283
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 283 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 142 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 142 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 97 verses · 68%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 42 verses · 30%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 2%
How translations render this word
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BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Shall be unclean 26×, Be unclean 18×, Defile 13×
- American Standard Version†: Shall be unclean 25×, Be unclean 18×, Defile 9×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Will be unclean 27×, He will be unclean 15×, Defile 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Shall be unclean 17×, Unclean 14×, He shall be unclean 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2930 across 161† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 68 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2930 across 163† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 75 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2930 across 157† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 56 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2930 across 197† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 57 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
24 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel), Hithpael (reflexive or reciprocal), and Hothp (the passive of Hithpael).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 24 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
טמא I be or become unclean (NH Pi. pollute (ceremonially)
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. ט׳ Lv 11:25 + 22 times; 3 fs. טָֽמְאָה 12:2 + 2 times; 2 fs. טָמֵאת Ez 22:4; pl. טָֽמְאוּ Lv 15:18; Impf. יִטְמָא Lv 5:3 + 34 times; 3 fs. תִּטְמָא 12:2 + 4 times; pl. יִטְמְאוּ ψ 106:39; Inf. טָמְאָה Lv 15:32 + 6 times;—be or become unclean: e.g. Leviticus 11:25
- 1. sexually, c. בְּ Lv 18:20, 23 (H), Ez 23:17; the land Lv 18:25, 27 (H). e.g. Leviticus 18:20
- 2. religiously, with idols Ez 22:3; c. בְ v 4; with necromancers Lv 19:31 (H); by sacrificing children to idols ψ 106:39. e.g. Ezekiel 22:3
- 3. ceremonially, by contact with carcasses of unclean animals Lv 11:24, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34(×2), 35, 36, 40 (P); any carcass 17:15 (H); eating of a carcass 22:8 (H); by issues 15:4, 9, 20(×2), 24, 27, 32 (P); by contact with an unclean man 5:3; 15:4 (P), 22:5 (H), or thing 22:6 (H); by leprosy 13:14, 46; 14:36, 46 (P); by contact with the dead Nu 6:12; 19:20 (P), Ez 44:25, or with one unclean by such contact Nu 19:22 (P), Hg 2:13(×2); by contact with creeping things Lv 22:5 (H); certain animals were always unclean 11:26, 27 (P). In ordinary cases of uncleanness טמא עד הערב unclean till even Lv 11:24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 39, 40(×2); 14:46; 15:5, 6, 7, 8, 10(×2), 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27 Nu 19:7, 8, 10, 21, 22 (all P), Lv 17:15; 22:6 (H); but uncleanness lasted 7 days for woman bearing a son Lv 12:2(×2) (P), for man lying with woman having an issue 15:24 (P), or one coming in contact with the dead Nu 19:11, 14, 16 (P); it lasted 14 days for a woman bearing a daughter Lv 12:5 (P). e.g. Leviticus 11:24
Niphal
- Pf. 3 ms. נִטְמָא Ho 5:3; 6:10; 3 fs. נִטְמְאָה Nu 5:27, 28; נִטְמָ֑אָה 5:13 + 5 times; 1 s. נִטְמֵאתִי Je 2:23; 2 m.pl. נִטְמֵתֶם Lv 11:43 (א omitted by scribal error; but Ges al. derive from טמה), etc. + 4 times pf.; Pt. pl. נִטְמְאִים Ez 20:30, 31;—defile oneself, be defiled: e.g. Hosea 5:3
- 1. sexually, Lv 18:24 (H), Nu 5:13, 14(×2), 20, 27, 28, 29 (P). e.g. Leviticus 18:24
- 2. by idolatry conceived as whoredom Ho 5:3; 6:10 Je 2:23 Ez 20:30, 31, 43; 23:7, 13, 30. e.g. Hosea 5:3
- 3. ceremonially, by eating creeping things Lv 11:43. e.g. Leviticus 11:43
- 4. be regarded as unclean (cf. Pi. 4), prob. נִטְמִינוּ Jb 18:3 we are accounted as unclean; metapl. form; on another view v. טמה. e.g. Job 18:3
Piel
- Pf. טִמֵּא Gn 34:5 + 15 times; sf. טִמְּאוֹ Lv 13:8 + 3 times; 2 fs. טִמֵּאת Ez 5:11, etc. + 7 times Pf.; Impf. יְטַמֵּא 2 K 23:8, etc. + 12 times Impf.; Imv. pl. טַמְּאוּ Ez 9:7; Inf. טַמֵּא Lv 13:44 + 2 times; sf. טַמְּאָם 15:31, etc. + 4 times Inf.;—defile: e.g. Genesis 34:5
- 1. sexually Gn 34:5, 13, 27 (R), Ez 18:6, 11, 15; 22:11; 33:26; the land by sexual impurities of the people Lv 18:28 (H); Isr. by spiritual whoredom Ez 23:17. e.g. Genesis 34:5
- 2. religiously: the land, by bloodshed Nu 35:34 (P); by allowing the dead body of the murderer to hang on the tree over night Dt 21:23; by idolatry Je 2:7 Ez 36:17, 18; Isr. defiled the sacred places by the sacrifice of children Lv 20:3 (H), Ez 23:38, and God defiled him thereby 20:26; he defileth the sacred places by idolatry 2 Ch 36:14 Je 7:30 = 32:34, Ez 5:11; the holy name of י׳ 43:7, 8; Josiah defiled the idolatrous places of worship by destroying them and making them unfit for use 2 K 23:8, 10, 13, 16; of Isr. defiling idolatrous images Is 30:22, and the nations the temple of God ψ 79:1. e.g. Numbers 35:34
- 3. ceremonially: by ceremonial uncleanness, the sacred places Lv 15:31 Nu 19:13, 20 (P); the camp Nu 5:3 (P); the temple by dead bodies Ez 9:7; the Nazirite’s head of separation by a death occurring in his presence Nu 6:9 (P); the people defile themselves (נפשׁתיכם) by creeping things Lv 11:44 (P). e.g. Leviticus 15:31
- 4. pronounce or declare ceremonially unclean: the leper Lv 13:3, 8, 11, 15, 20, 22, 25, 27, 30, 44(×2), 59 (P); unclean animals 20:25 (H). e.g. Leviticus 13:3
Pual
- Pt. נַפְשִׁי לֹא מְטֻמָּאָה Ez 4:14 myself is not polluted. e.g. Ezekiel 4:14
Hithpael
- Impf. יִטַּמָּא Lv 21:1 + 4 times; pl. יִטַּמְּאוּ Ez 14:11; 37:23; יִטַּמָּ֑אוּ Ho 9:4 Ez 44:25, etc. + 6 times Impf.;—reflexive, defile oneself: by eating of an unaccepted peace-offering Ho 9:4; c. בְּ Lv 18:24, 30 (H), 11:43 (P), Ez 14:11; 20:7, 18; 37:23; c. לְ for a dead person Lv 21:1, 3, 11 (H), Nu 6:7 (P); by Lv 11:24 (P); without prep. 21:4 (H), Ez 44:25. e.g. Leviticus 21:1
Hothp
- Pf. אַהֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר הֻטַּמָּ֑אָה Dt 24:4 after that she has been defiled (sexually); on form v. Ges§ 54. 3. e.g. Deuteronomy 24:4
טמא II unclean
- 1. ethically and religiously ט׳ שׂפתים Is 6:5(×2) unclean of lips; ט׳ השׁם Ez 22:5 defiled of name, infamous; טהור מִטּ׳ Jb 14:4. e.g. Isaiah 6:5
- 2. ritually:
- a. of persons, ‖ טהור Dt 12:15, 22; 15:22 Ec 9:2; ט׳ נפשׁ Lv 22:4 (H); (אדם) ט׳ לנפשׁ unclean for a (dead) person Nu 5:2; 9:6, 7, 10 (P) = ט׳ נפשׁ Hg 2:13; elsewhere for various reasons Dt 26:14; Lv 5:2; 13:11, 36, 44, 45(×2), 46; 15:2, 25, 33 Nu 19:13, 17, 19, 20, 22 (all P), 2 Ch 23:19; Is 64:5 Ez 4:13; 22:10 La 4:15. e.g. Deuteronomy 12:15
- b. of animals Lv 5:2(×4); 7:21(×2); 11:4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31; 27:11, 27 Nu 18:15 (all P), Lv 20:25(×2) (H), Dt 14:7, 8, 10, 19. e.g. Leviticus 5:2
- c. of things in gen. Lv 11:35(×2), 38; 15:26 Nu 19:15 (all P), Is 52:11; food Ju 13:4 Ho 9:3; houses Je 19:13; leprosy Lv 13:15, 51, 55; 14:44, 57 (P); offering Hg 2:14. e.g. Leviticus 11:35
- d. persons and things in general כל טמא Lv 7:19, 21 (P); הבדיל בין הט׳ ובין הטהור Lv 10:10; 11:47; הודיע בין (ה)ט׳ לטהור Ez 22:26; 44:23; of aliens Is 52:1 (‖ עָרֵל), perhaps also 35:8. e.g. Leviticus 7:19
- 3. specif. of places: מקום ט׳ unclean place (place of refuse away from holy place and human habitation) Lv 14:40, 41, 45 (P); טמאה ארץ land on the east of the Jordan separated from the land of the tabernacle of י׳ Jos 22:19 (P); so אדמה ט׳ a foreign land Am 7:17. e.g. Leviticus 14:40
טמא III uncleanness (טָֽמְאָה, Baer, seems to rest upon a misinterpretation of the form) Mi 2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. vb. be or become unclean (NH Pi. pollute (ceremonially); Aramaic טְמָא and especially deriv., ܛܰܡܰܐ Pa. pollute; v. RSK 307 ff.)—
II. adj. unclean;—ט׳ Lv 5:2 + 58 times; cstr. טְמֵא 22:4 + 3 times; f. טְמֵאָה 5:2 + 11 times; cstr. טְמֵאַת Ez 22:5, 10; pl. טְמֵאִים Lv 11:8 + 10 times;—unclean,
I. n.f. uncleanness (טָֽמְאָה, Baer, seems to rest upon a misinterpretation of the form) Mi 2:10 (so Thes MV SS); of ethical uncleanness, from wrong-doing.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
טַמָּא
- (= טעמא, v. M. Kat. 18ᵃ quot. s. v. טַעֲמָא, a. T’shuboth G’onim ed. Cassel, p. 22ᵃ) reason, argument (on the cause of grief), consolation.—Pl. טַמַּיָּא, or טָמַיָּא.—בֵּי ט׳ gathering of comforters around the mourner in his house or at the place of worship. Ber. 6ᵇ אגרא דבי ט׳ וכ׳ (Ar. טמא, Tshub. G’onim l. c. טעמא) the merit of attending the mourner’s gathering lies in the silence (which must be observed until the mourner begins to speak). Snh. 113ᵃ [read:] למשאל ביה ט׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note), v. טַעֲמָא.
טָמֵא I
- [to be filled up, inaccesible,] to be unclean; v. טָמֵא II.
- 1. to make unclean, to soil, defile. Yoma 39ᵃ אדם מְטַמֵּא עצמו מעט מְטַמְּאִין וכ׳ if a man begins to defile himself a little (through sin), he will soon be defiled largely. Yad. III, 5, a. fr. מט׳ את הידים their handling makes the hands unclean (washing the hands is required after handling them). Kel. I, 1; a. v. fr.
- 2. to declare unclean. Toh. VI, 2. Eduy. I, 11; a. v. fr.—Makhsh. VI, 2 טִימְּאוּ; Y. Dem. V, 24ᵈ טִימּוּ.
- , Hithpa. הִתְטַמֵּא, הִיטַּמֵּא
- 1. to become unclean, to be made unclean. Ukts. I, 1 מְטַמֵּא ומִיטַּמֵּא eventually makes unclean and becomes unclean. Kel. II, 1 מִיתְטַמְּאִין וכ׳ (ed. Dehr. מִיטַּ׳) are fit to become unclean and to make unclean. Ib. ומיט׳ מאחוריהן ואינן מיט׳ וכ׳ Mish. ed. (Talm. ed. מִטַּ׳) may be made unclean through their backs (touching uncleanness), &c. Ib. VI, 4 ונִטְמְאוּ and which became unclean; a. v. fr.—Yoma 38ᵇ [read:] בא לִטַּמֵּא פְּתָחִין לו (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) to him who is willing to defile himself, doors are open; Sabb. 104ᵃ; Ab. Zar. 55ᵃ; Men. 29ᵇ
- 2. to make one’s self unclean by handling a corpse &c. (v. Lev. XXI, 1, sq.). Yeb. 60ᵃ מִטַּמֵּא לה he (the priest) may attend to her burial; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 21:1
טְמָא
- v. טְמִי
טָמֵא II
- v. preced. art.) unclean, levitically impure, forbidden. Kel. XII, 2 המחובר לט׳ ט׳ whatever is attached to an object which is fit to become unclean, may become unclean. Ib. 1 טבעת אדם ט׳ a ring used by man may eventually become unclean; a. v. fr.—Ḥull. VII, 5 דג ט׳ a fish forbidden to eat. Ib. 6 (בהמה) ט׳ a forbidden animal; a. v. fr.—Ab. Zar. 39ᵃ (referring to ‘the ass of the sea’, v. חֲמָר, a. ‘the ox of the sea’, v. תּוֹרָא) ט׳ טהור טהור ט׳ what is unclean (on land) is clean (in water) &c.—טְמֵא מת = b. h. טָ׳ למת, one made unclean through a corpse. Pes. 19ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. טְמֵאִים, טְמֵאִין; f. טְמֵאוֹת. Ḥull. VIII, 6. Pes. 17ᵃ. Kel. XI, 8; a. v. fr.—טְמֵאֵי מתים, v. supra. Pes. 66ᵇ; a. fr.
טְמֵא
- v. טְמֵי
טְמִי
- = h. טָמֵא, to be, become unclean. Targ. Ps. CVI, 39 טְמִיאוּ (some ed. incorr. טַמִּי׳).
- to make unclean. Targ. Y. II, Num. XII, 12.—Targ. Mic. II, 10 בדיל לטַמָּיוּתָהּ ed. Lag. (ed. בדיל ט׳ corr. acc.) in order to defile her.—Ḥull. 3ᵃ לטַמְּיֵיה וטַמִּיתֵיה לבשר … the person will make the knife unclean and then the knife will make the flesh unclean. Pes. 79ᵃ דבשר הוא דמְטַמְּיָא ליה וכ׳ which affects only the flesh, but not the person. (Ms. M. דמִיטַּמֵּי … מִיטַּמְּאֵי, Ithpe.). Ib. 67ᵇ טַמּוּיֵי מְטַמֵּי makes unclean; a. fr.
- to be made unclean. Ḥull. 2ᵇ; a. e.
טְמֵי
- , constr. (preced.) unclean. Targ. Num. V, 2, a. fr. ט׳ נפשא, v. טָמֵא II.—Pl. f. טַמְיַין. Targ. Y. Deut. XIV, 4 [read:] עִיבּוּרֵי ט׳ (v. Bekh. 7ᵃ) offsprings of unclean mothers.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 101 distinct written forms H2930 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 41 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2930, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 140 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 142 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 34:5
- Leviticus 5:3
- Numbers 5:3
- Deuteronomy 21:23
- 2 Kings 23:8
- 2 Chronicles 36:14
- Psalms 79:1
- Isaiah 30:22
- Jeremiah 2:7
- Ezekiel 4:14
- Hosea 5:3
- Micah 2:10
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
