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Word Study · Strong's H2931 · Hebrew

טָמֵא

tame

taw-may'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ṭâmêʼ

foul in a religious sense

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

foul in a religious sense

Rendered in the KJV as

defiled, [phrase] infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.

  • 88
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 44
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 88 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 44

  • טָמֵ֥א17
  • טָמֵ֖א7
  • הַטָּמֵ֖א5
  • טָמֵ֣א5
  • טְמֵאִ֥ים5
  • טָמֵֽא׃4
  • הַטָּמֵ֔א2
  • הַטָּמֵ֤א2
  • טָמֵ֑א2
  • טְמֵא־2
  • טְמֵאָ֗ה2
  • טְמֵאָ֔ה2

and 32 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 31

  • [is] unclean23
  • unclean17
  • [are] unclean7
  • the unclean6
  • the unclean [thing]4
  • unclean [thing]3
  • an unclean [thing]2
  • the unclean [person]2
  • unclean of2
  • [are] the unclean1
  • [is] the unclean1
  • [person] unclean1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 14

  • adjective · masculine singular41
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular11
  • adjective · feminine singular9
  • adjective · masculine plural8
  • adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4
  • adjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular2
  • preposition + adjective · masculine singular2
  • preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular2
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singular2
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural2
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HAamsa · 41
  • HTd/Aamsa · 11
  • HAafsa · 9
  • HAampa · 8
  • HAamsc · 4
  • HAafsc · 2
  • HC/Aamsa · 2
  • HR/Aamsa · 2
  • HRd/Aamsa · 2
  • HTd/Aafsa · 2
  • HTd/Aampa · 2
  • HC/Aampa · 1

All 88, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Leviticus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Leviticus47 occurrences
Numbers11 occurrences
Deuteronomy8 occurrences
Joshua1 occurrence
Judges1 occurrence
2 Chronicles1 occurrence
Job1 occurrence
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Isaiah6 occurrences
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel5 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos1 occurrence
Haggai2 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled טָמֵא

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).