טָמֵא

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Hebrew H2930 Verb 162 occurrences in 142 verses
טָמֵא to defile

1. to be unclean, become unclean, become impure

a. (Qal) to be or become unclean

1. sexually

2. religiously

3. ceremonially

b. (Niphal)

1. to defile oneself, be defiled

a. sexually

b. by idolatry

c. ceremonially

2. to be regarded as unclean

c. (Piel)

1. to defile

a. sexually

b. religiously

c. ceremonially

2. to pronounce unclean, declare unclean (ceremonially)

3. to profane (God's name)

d. (Pual) to be defiled

e. (Hithpael) to be unclean

f. (Hothpael) to be defiled

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 142 verses

  1. Leviticus 15:22 וְטָמֵ֥א

    Whoever touches any furniture on which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

  2. Leviticus 15:23 יִטְמָ֖א

    And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.

  3. Leviticus 15:24 וְטָמֵ֖איִטְמָֽא׃פ

    If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.

  4. Leviticus 15:27 יִטְמָ֑אוְטָמֵ֥א

    Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

  5. Leviticus 15:31 בְּטַמְּאָ֥ם

    You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.

  6. Leviticus 15:32 לְטָמְאָה־

    This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,

  7. Leviticus 17:15 וְטָמֵ֥א

    And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

  8. Leviticus 18:20 לְטָמְאָה־

    You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

  9. Leviticus 18:23 לְטָמְאָה־

    You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

  10. Leviticus 18:24 תִּֽטַּמְּא֖וּנִטְמְא֣וּ

    Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

  11. Leviticus 18:25 וַתִּטְמָ֣א

    Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

  12. Leviticus 18:27 וַתִּטְמָ֖א

    For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

  13. Leviticus 18:28 בְּטַֽמַּאֲכֶ֖ם

    So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

  14. Leviticus 18:30 תִֽטַּמְּא֖וּ

    You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”

  15. Leviticus 19:31 לְטָמְאָ֣ה

    You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

  16. Leviticus 20:3 טַמֵּא֙

    And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.

  17. Leviticus 20:25 לְטַמֵּֽא׃

    You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

  18. Leviticus 21:1 יִטַּמָּ֖א

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,

  19. Leviticus 21:3 יִטַּמָּֽא׃

    or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.

  20. Leviticus 21:4 יִטַּמָּ֖א

    He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

  21. Leviticus 21:11 יִטַּמָּֽא׃

    He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

  22. Leviticus 22:5 יִטְמָא־יִטְמָא־

    or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—

  23. Leviticus 22:6 וְטָמְאָ֖ה

    the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.

  24. Leviticus 22:8 לְטָמְאָה־

    He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.

  25. Numbers 5:3 יְטַמְּאוּ֙

    You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

  26. Numbers 5:13 נִטְמָ֑אָה

    by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),

  27. Numbers 5:14 נִטְמָ֑אָהנִטְמָֽאָה׃

    and if a feeling of jealousy comes over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects her even though she has not defiled herself—

  28. Numbers 5:20 נִטְמֵ֑את

    But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—

  29. Numbers 5:27 נִטְמְאָה֮

    When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.

  30. Numbers 5:28 נִטְמְאָה֙

    But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.

  31. Numbers 5:29 וְנִטְמָֽאָה׃

    This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

  32. Numbers 6:7 יִטַּמָּ֥א

    Even if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the crown of consecration to his God is upon his head.

  33. Numbers 6:9 וְטִמֵּ֖א

    If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.

  34. Numbers 6:12 טָמֵ֖א

    He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.

  35. Numbers 19:7 וְטָמֵ֥א

    Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

  36. Numbers 19:8 וְטָמֵ֖א

    The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

  37. Numbers 19:10 וְטָמֵ֖א

    The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

  38. Numbers 19:11 וְטָמֵ֖א

    Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

  39. Numbers 19:13 טִמֵּ֔א

    Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

  40. Numbers 19:14 יִטְמָ֖א

    This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,

  41. Numbers 19:16 יִטְמָ֖א

    Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

  42. Numbers 19:20 יִטְמָא֙טִמֵּ֗א

    But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

  43. Numbers 19:21 יִטְמָ֖א

    This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

  44. Numbers 19:22 יִטְמָ֑אתִּטְמָ֥א

    Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”

  45. Numbers 35:34 תְטַמֵּ֣א

    Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”

  46. Deuteronomy 21:23 תְטַמֵּא֙

    you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

  47. Deuteronomy 24:4 הֻטַּמָּ֔אָה

    then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

  48. 2 Kings 23:8 וַיְטַמֵּ֣א

    Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.

  49. 2 Kings 23:10 וְטִמֵּ֣א

    He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.

  50. 2 Kings 23:13 טִמֵּ֖א

    The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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