טָמֵא
ta.me
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
uncleanness
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
Forms
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Old Testament
New Testament
Concordance 142 verses
- 2 Kings 23:16 וַֽיְטַמְּאֵ֑הוּ
And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14 וַֽיְטַמְּאוּ֙
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- Psalms 79:1 טִ֭מְּאוּ
The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- Psalms 106:39 וַיִּטְמְא֥וּ
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
- Isaiah 30:22 וְטִמֵּאתֶ֗ם
So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
- Jeremiah 2:7 וַתְּטַמְּא֣וּ
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
- Jeremiah 2:23 נִטְמֵ֗אתִי
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
- Jeremiah 7:30 לְטַמְּאֽוֹ׃
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Jeremiah 32:34 לְטַמְּאֽוֹ׃
They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Ezekiel 4:14 מְטֻמָּאָ֑ה
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
- Ezekiel 5:11 טִמֵּ֔את
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
- Ezekiel 9:7 טַמְּא֣וּ
Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.
- Ezekiel 14:11 יִטַּמְּא֥וּ
in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”
- Ezekiel 18:6 טִמֵּ֔א
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
- Ezekiel 18:11 טִמֵּֽא׃
though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
- Ezekiel 18:15 טִמֵּֽא׃
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
- Ezekiel 20:7 תִּטַּמָּ֑אוּ
And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
- Ezekiel 20:18 תִּטַּמָּֽאוּ׃
In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- Ezekiel 20:26 וָאֲטַמֵּ֤א
And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 20:30 נִטְמְאִ֑ים
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
- Ezekiel 20:31 נִטְמְאִ֤֨ים
When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!
- Ezekiel 20:43 נִטְמֵאתֶ֖ם
There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
- Ezekiel 22:3 לְטָמְאָֽה׃
and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,
- Ezekiel 22:4 טָמֵ֔את
you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
- Ezekiel 22:11 טִמֵּ֣א
One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
- Ezekiel 23:7 נִטְמָֽאָה׃
She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
- Ezekiel 23:13 נִטְמָ֑אָה
And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.
- Ezekiel 23:17 וַיְטַמְּא֥וּוַתִּ֨טְמָא־
Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.
- Ezekiel 23:30 נִטְמֵ֖את
have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
- Ezekiel 23:38 טִמְּא֤וּ
They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 33:26 טִמֵּאתֶ֑ם
You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’
- Ezekiel 36:17 וַיְטַמְּא֣וּ
“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.
- Ezekiel 36:18 טִמְּאֽוּהָ׃
So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
- Ezekiel 37:23 יִֽטַמְּא֣וּ
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 43:7 יְטַמְּא֣וּ
and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.
- Ezekiel 43:8 וְטִמְּא֣וּ׀
When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
- Ezekiel 44:25 לְטָמְאָ֑היִטַּמָּֽאוּ׃
A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,
- Hosea 5:3 נִטְמָ֖א
I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.
- Hosea 6:10 נִטְמָ֖א
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
- Hosea 9:4 יִטַמָּ֑אוּ
They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
- Micah 2:10 טָמְאָ֛ה
Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!
- Haggai 2:13 הֲיִטְמָ֑איִטְמָֽא׃
So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.