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 2 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.
- Deuteronomy 12:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 15:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 26:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.
Read word by word - Joshua 22:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If indeed the land of your inheritance is unclean, then cross over to the land of the LORD’s possession, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.
Read word by word - Judges 13:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 23:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that no one who was in any way unclean could enter.
Read word by word - Job 14:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 9:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
Read word by word - Isaiah 6:5
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 35:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
Read word by word - Isaiah 52:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
Read word by word - Isaiah 52:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
Read word by word - Isaiah 64:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.5
- Jeremiah 19:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
Read word by word - Lamentations 4:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 4:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 22:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 22:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 22:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 44:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
Read word by word - Hosea 9:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Read word by word - Amos 7:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
Read word by word - Haggai 2:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Haggai 2:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.
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