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:
Ezekiel 36:18: "upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted"
Ezekiel 37:23: "Neither shall they defile themselves any more nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save"
Ezekiel 43:7: "shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom,"
Ezekiel 43:8: "my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations"
Ezekiel 44:25: "no person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother,"
Ezekiel 44:25: "that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves."
Hosea 5:3: "O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled."
Hosea 6:10: "is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled."
Hosea 9:4: "of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not"
Micah 2:10: "is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction."
Haggai 2:13: "touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean."
Haggai 2:13: "And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean."
