Lexical Summary tame: unclean Original Word: טָמֵאTransliteration: tame Phonetic Spelling: (taw-may') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: unclean Meaning: unclean Strong's Concordance defiled, infamous, polluted, unclean From tame'; foul in a relig. Sense -- defiled, + infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean. see HEBREW tame' Brown-Driver-Briggs H2931. tame II. טָמֵא adjective unclean; — ׳ט Leviticus 5:2 58t.; construct טְמֵא 22:4 3t.; feminine טְמֵאָה 5:2 11t.; construct טְמֵאַת Ezekiel 22:5, 10; plural טְמֵאִים Leviticus 11:8 10t.; — unclean, 1 ethically and religiously ׳ט שׂפתים Isaiah 6:5 (twice in verse) unclean of lips; ׳ט השׁם Ezekiel 22:5 defiled of name, infamous; מִטּ ׳טהור Job 14:4. 2 ritually: a. of persons, "" טהור Deuteronomy 12:15, 22; 15:22; Ecclesiastes 9:2; ׳ט נפשׁ Leviticus 22:4 (H); (אדם) ׳ט לנפשׁ unclean for a (dead) person Numbers 5:2; 9:6-7, 10 (P) = ׳ט נפשׁ Haggai 2:13; elsewhere for various reasons Deuteronomy 26:14; Leviticus 5:2; 13:11, 16, 44, 45 (twice in verse); 13:46; 15:2, 25, 33; Numbers 19:13, 17, 19, 20, 22 (all P), 2 Chronicles 23:19; Isaiah 64:5; Ezekiel 4:13; 22:10; Lamentations 4:15. b. of animals Leviticus 5:2 (4 t. in verse); 7:21 (twice in verse); 11:4-5, 6, 7, 8, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31; 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); 11:38; 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; 14:44, 57 (P); offering Haggai 2:14. d. persons and things in General טמא כל Leviticus 7:19, 21 (P); הט בין ׳הבדיל הטהור ובין 10:10; 11:47; (ה)ט בין ׳הודיע לטהור Ezekiel 22:26; 44:23; of aliens Isaiah 52:1 ("" עָרֵל), perhaps also 35:8. 3 specifically of places: ט ׳מקום unclean place (place of refuse away from holy place and human habitation) Leviticus 14:40-41, 45 (P); ארץ טמאה land on the east of the Jordan separated from the land of the tabernacle of ׳י Joshua 22:19 (P); so ט ׳אדמה a foreign land Amos 7:17. |
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