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:
Leviticus 15:10: "was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash"
Leviticus 15:10: "his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:11: "he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:16: "all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:17: "the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:18: "with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:19: "days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:20: "she lieth in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon"
Leviticus 15:20: "also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean."
Leviticus 15:21: "his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:22: "his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:23: "whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:24: "lie with her at all, be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days;"
Leviticus 15:24: "days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean."
Leviticus 15:27: "And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean"
Leviticus 15:27: "his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even."
Leviticus 15:31: "from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that"
Leviticus 15:32: "seed goeth from him, and is defiled"
Leviticus 17:15: "his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean."
Leviticus 18:20: "lie carnally with wife, to defile"
Leviticus 18:23: "shalt thou lie with any to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand"
Leviticus 18:24: " Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: in all these the nations"
Leviticus 18:24: "in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out"
Leviticus 18:25: "And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out"
Leviticus 18:27: "which were before you, and the land is defiled;)"
Leviticus 18:28: "That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it spewed out"
Leviticus 18:30: "any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves"
Leviticus 19:31: "seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God."
Leviticus 20:3: "because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile"
Leviticus 20:25: "or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean."
Leviticus 21:1: "and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:"
Leviticus 21:3: "hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled."
Leviticus 21:4: "But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man to profane himself."
Leviticus 21:11: "dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;"
Leviticus 22:5: "toucheth creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom"
Leviticus 22:5: "he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness"
Leviticus 22:6: "The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat"
Leviticus 22:8: "or is torn with beasts, he shall not to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD."
Numbers 5:3: "without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not"
Numbers 5:13: "from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness"
Numbers 5:14: "of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come"
Numbers 5:14: "of his wife, and she be not defiled:"
Numbers 5:20: "thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain"
Numbers 5:27: "the water, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water"
Numbers 5:28: "And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed."
Numbers 5:29: "goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;"
Numbers 6:7: "He shall not make himself unclean for his father, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because"
Numbers 6:9: "suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head"
Numbers 6:12: "shall be lost, because his separation was defiled."
Numbers 19:7: "into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even."
