Brown-Driver-Briggs
II.
טָמֵא adjective unclean; —
׳ט Leviticus 5:2 58t.; construct
טְמֵא Leviticus 22:4 3t.; feminine
טְמֵאָה Leviticus 5:2 11t.; construct
טְמֵאַת Ezekiel 22:5,10; plural
טְמֵאִים Leviticus 11:8 10t.; —
unclean,
1 ethically and religiously שׂפתים ׳ט Isaiah 6:5 (twice in verse) unclean of lips; השׁם ׳ט Ezekiel 22:5 defiled of name, infamous; ׳טהור מִטּ Job 14:4.
2 ritually:
a. of persons, "" טהור Deuteronomy 12:15,22; Deuteronomy 15:22; Ecclesiastes 9:2; נפשׁ ׳ט Leviticus 22:4 (H); (אדם) לנפשׁ ׳ט unclean for a (dead) person Numbers 5:2; Numbers 9:6,7,10 (P) = נפשׁ ׳ט Haggai 2:13; elsewhere for various reasons Deuteronomy 26:14; Leviticus 5:2; Leviticus 13:11,16,44,45 (twice in verse); Leviticus 13:46; Leviticus 15:2,25,33; Numbers 19:13,17,19,20,22 (all P), 2 Chronicles 23:19; Isaiah 64:5; Ezekiel 4:13; Ezekiel 22:10; Lamentations 4:15.
b. of animals Leviticus 5:2 (4 t. in verse); Leviticus 7:21 (twice in verse); Leviticus 11:4,5,6,7,8,26,27,28,29,31; Leviticus 27:11,27; Numbers 18:15 (all P), Leviticus 20:25 (twice in verse) (H), Deuteronomy 14:7,8,10,19.
c. of things in Gen. Leviticus 11:35 (twice in verse); Leviticus 11:38; Leviticus 15:26; Numbers 19:15 (all P), Isaiah 52:11; food Judges 13:4; Hosea 9:3; houses Jeremiah 19:13; leprosy Leviticus 13:15,51,55; Leviticus 14:44,57 (P); offering Haggai 2:14.
d. persons and things in General כל טמא Leviticus 7:19,21 (P); ובין הטהור ׳הבדיל בין הט Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 11:47; לטהור ׳הודיע בין (ה)ט Ezekiel 22:26; Ezekiel 44:23; of aliens Isaiah 52:1 ("" עָרֵל), perhaps also Isaiah 35:8.
3 specifically of places: ׳מקום ט unclean place (place of refuse away from holy place and human habitation) Leviticus 14:40,41,45 (P); טמאה ארץ land on the east of the Jordan separated from the land of the tabernacle of ׳י Joshua 22:19 (P); so ׳אדמה ט a foreign land Amos 7:17.
