TBESH · H2931
טָמֵא · ta.me · unclean
1) unclean, impure 1a) ethically and religiously 1b) ritually 1c) of places
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ta.me H2931
טָמֵא (ta.me) means “unclean” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
טָמֵא Hebrew · H2931 88 tagged occurrences in 78 verses
Pronunciation guide: taw-may' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H2930 (טָמֵא); foul in a religious sense
KJV glosses: defiled, [phrase] infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.
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How translators render H2931
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| is unclean | 20 |
| unclean | 17 |
| are unclean | 8 |
| an unclean | 4 |
| and the unclean | 4 |
| and unclean | 3 |
| of unclean | 3 |
| the unclean | 3 |
| defiled | 2 |
| the ceremonially unclean | 2 |
| an unclean woman | 1 |
| for the purification of the unclean person | 1 |
| from unclean | 1 |
| is defiled | 1 |
| it is among the unclean | 1 |
| like something unclean | 1 |
| o infamous city | 1 |
| of any unclean | 1 |
| of the unclean | 1 |
| one who is defiled | 1 |
| or unclean | 1 |
| pagan | 1 |
| the unclean person | 1 |
| their defiled | 1 |
| unclean food | 1 |
| unclean thing | 1 |
| while unclean | 1 |
| who is defiled | 1 |
| women during their menstrual impurity | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| unclean | 41 |
| of unclean | 5 |
| any unclean | 3 |
| between the unclean | 3 |
| and between unclean | 2 |
| into an unclean | 2 |
| of an unclean | 2 |
| the unclean | 2 |
| a polluted | 1 |
| and for an unclean | 1 |
| and shall be unclean | 1 |
| and the unclean | 1 |
| and to the unclean | 1 |
| and unclean | 1 |
| and whatsoever the unclean | 1 |
| and whosoever is defiled | 1 |
| but we are all as an unclean | 1 |
| defiled | 1 |
| for pollution | 1 |
| from him he also shall be unclean | 1 |
| infamous | 1 |
| no unclean | 1 |
| not any unclean | 1 |
| out of an unclean | 1 |
| shall be defiled | 1 |
| shall be unclean | 1 |
| thee the unclean | 1 |
| their defiled | 1 |
| them into an unclean | 1 |
| them the unclean | 1 |
| upon him he shall be unclean | 1 |
| upon shall be unclean | 1 |
| upon the unclean | 1 |
| who were defiled | 1 |
| with her that is unclean | 1 |
Verses containing H2931
Page 1 of 2. 78 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Leviticus 5:2
· BSB · 5 occurrences
Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.
Read word by word - Leviticus 7:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
Read word by word - Leviticus 7:21
· BSB · 3 occurrences
If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
Read word by word - Leviticus 10:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But of those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:35
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
Read word by word - Leviticus 11:47
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
Read word by word - Leviticus 13:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
it is a chronic skin disease and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not isolate him, for he is unclean.
Read word by word - Leviticus 13:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the priest sees the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.
Read word by word - Leviticus 13:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the priest is to examine him, and if the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest need not look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.
Read word by word - Leviticus 13:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.
Read word by word - Leviticus 13:45
· BSB · 2 occurrences
A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
Read word by word - Leviticus 13:46
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
Read word by word - Leviticus 13:51
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On the seventh day the priest shall reexamine it, and if the mildew has spread in the fabric, weave, knit, or leather, then regardless of how it is used, it is a harmful mildew; the article is unclean.
Read word by word - Leviticus 13:55
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.
Read word by word - Leviticus 14:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
Read word by word - Leviticus 14:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
Read word by word - Leviticus 14:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the priest must come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.
Read word by word - Leviticus 14:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
Read word by word - Leviticus 14:57
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”
Read word by word - Leviticus 15:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
Read word by word - Leviticus 15:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.
Read word by word - Leviticus 15:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period.
Read word by word - Leviticus 15:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”
Read word by word - Leviticus 20:25
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Leviticus 22:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,
Read word by word - Leviticus 27:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.
Read word by word - Leviticus 27:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
Read word by word - Numbers 5:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
Read word by word - Numbers 9:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
Read word by word - Numbers 9:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”
Read word by word - Numbers 9:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
Read word by word - Numbers 18:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.
Read word by word - Numbers 19:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Numbers 19:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.
Read word by word - Numbers 19:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
Read word by word - Numbers 19:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.
Read word by word - Numbers 19:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Numbers 19:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
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