Strong's #2930: tame' (pronounced taw-may')
a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated):--defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, X utterly.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ṭâmê'
1) to be unclean, become unclean, become impure
1a) (Qal) to be or become unclean
1a1) sexually
1a2) religiously
1a3) ceremonially
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to defile oneself, be defiled
1b1a) sexually
1b1b) by idolatry
1b1c) ceremonially
1b2) to be regarded as unclean
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to defile
1c1a) sexually
1c1b) religiously
1c1c) ceremonially
1c2) to pronounce unclean, declare unclean (ceremonially)
1c3) to profane (God' s name)
1d) (Pual) to be defiled
1e) (Hithpael) to be unclean
1f) (Hothpael) to be defiled
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 162 times:
Genesis 34:5: "And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons"
Genesis 34:13: "deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:"
Genesis 34:27: "and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister."
Leviticus 5:3: "whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth"
Leviticus 11:24: "And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 11:24: "whosoever the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 11:25: "aught of the carcass his clothes, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 11:26: "the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean."
Leviticus 11:27: "unto you: whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 11:28: "the carcass his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean"
Leviticus 11:31: "whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 11:32: "whatsoever any of doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel"
Leviticus 11:32: "it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even;"
Leviticus 11:33: "any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break"
Leviticus 11:34: "that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that"
Leviticus 11:34: "that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean."
Leviticus 11:35: "thing whereupon any part of their carcass shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots,"
Leviticus 11:36: "clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean."
Leviticus 11:39: "die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 11:40: "of the carcass of it shall wash and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth"
Leviticus 11:40: "the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 11:43: "make yourselves abominable with any that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled"
Leviticus 11:43: "with any that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled"
Leviticus 11:44: "I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing"
Leviticus 12:2: "have conceived seed, and borne a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation"
Leviticus 12:2: "according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean."
Leviticus 12:5: "But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in"
Leviticus 13:3: "is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean."
Leviticus 13:8: "spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy."
Leviticus 13:11: "of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he"
Leviticus 13:14: "raw flesh in him, he shall be unclean."
Leviticus 13:15: "flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it"
Leviticus 13:20: "thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out"
Leviticus 13:22: "it spread much abroad in the skin, shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague."
Leviticus 13:25: "broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy."
Leviticus 13:27: "it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague"
Leviticus 13:30: "thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scurf, even a leprosy"
Leviticus 13:44: "is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head."
Leviticus 13:44: "is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head."
Leviticus 13:46: "the days wherein shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone;"
Leviticus 13:59: "of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean."
Leviticus 14:36: "that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in"
Leviticus 14:46: "the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:4: "whereon that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon"
Leviticus 15:4: "and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean."
Leviticus 15:5: "his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:6: "shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:7: "his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:8: "his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:9: "And what saddle soever he rideth upon shall be unclean."
