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:
Numbers 19:8: "and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even."
Numbers 19:10: "shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children"
Numbers 19:11: "body man shall be unclean seven days."
Numbers 19:13: "that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD;"
Numbers 19:14: "and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days."
Numbers 19:16: "a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days."
Numbers 19:20: "But the man that shall be unclean, purify himself, that soul shall be cut off"
Numbers 19:20: "from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD:"
Numbers 19:21: "and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even."
Numbers 19:22: "And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean"
Numbers 19:22: "person toucheth and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even."
Numbers 35:34: " Defile not therefore which ye shall inhabit, wherein"
Deuteronomy 21:23: "of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 24:4: "to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination"
2 Kings 23:8: "out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where"
2 Kings 23:10: " And he defiled Topheth, is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no"
2 Kings 23:13: "and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile."
2 Kings 23:16: "and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man"
2 Chronicles 36:14: "transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house"
Psalms 79:1: "thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps."
Psalms 106:39: " Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring"
Isaiah 30:22: " Ye shall defile also the covering of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold:"
Jeremiah 2:7: "the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage"
Jeremiah 2:23: "How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?"
Jeremiah 7:30: "is called by my name, to pollute"
Jeremiah 32:34: "is called by my name, to defile"
Ezekiel 4:14: "behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now"
Ezekiel 5:11: "GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all"
Ezekiel 9:7: "And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts"
Ezekiel 14:11: "astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions;"
Ezekiel 18:6: "of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor's wife, neither hath come near"
Ezekiel 18:11: "hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,"
Ezekiel 18:15: "of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor's wife,"
Ezekiel 20:7: "the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I"
Ezekiel 20:18: "observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:"
Ezekiel 20:26: " And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate,"
Ezekiel 20:30: "the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom"
Ezekiel 20:31: "through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day:"
Ezekiel 20:43: "and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils"
Ezekiel 22:3: "and maketh idols against herself to defile"
Ezekiel 22:4: "in thy blood that and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days"
Ezekiel 22:11: "wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled"
Ezekiel 23:7: "she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself."
Ezekiel 23:13: "Then I saw that she was defiled, one way,"
Ezekiel 23:17: "came to of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind"
Ezekiel 23:17: "of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from"
Ezekiel 23:30: "the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols."
Ezekiel 23:38: "Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day,"
Ezekiel 33:26: "your sword, abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbor's wife:"
Ezekiel 36:17: "dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was"
