Midvash

טָמֵאṭâmêʼ

טָמֵא: be or become unclean

Pronunciation: taw-may' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2930

Meanings

Qal: be or become unclean (Leviticus 11:25; Leviticus 12:2; Ezekiel 22:4)

1. sexually (Leviticus 18:20; Leviticus 18:23; Ezekiel 23:17)

2. religiously (Ezekiel 22:3; Ezekiel 22:4; Leviticus 19:31)

3. ceremonially (Leviticus 11:24; Leviticus 11:27; Leviticus 11:28)

Niph`al: defile oneself, be defiled (Hosea 5:3; Hosea 6:10; Numbers 5:27)

1. sexually (Leviticus 18:24; Numbers 5:13; Numbers 5:14)

2. by idolatry conceived as whoredom (Hosea 5:3; Hosea 6:10; Jeremiah 2:23)

3. ceremonially (Leviticus 11:43)

4. be regarded as unclean, (compare Pi`el 4) (Job 18:3)

Pi`el: defile (Genesis 34:5; Leviticus 13:8; Ezekiel 5:11)

1. sexually (Genesis 34:5; Genesis 34:13; Genesis 34:27)

2. religiously (Numbers 35:34; Deuteronomy 21:23; Jeremiah 2:7)

3. ceremonially (Leviticus 15:31; Numbers 19:13; Numbers 19:20)

4. pronounce or declare ceremonially unclean (Leviticus 13:3; Leviticus 13:8; Leviticus 13:11)

Pu`al: polluted (Ezekiel 4:14)

Hithpa`el: defile oneself, reflexive (Leviticus 21:1; Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 37:23)

Hothpa`al: she has been defiled, (sexually) (Deuteronomy 24:4)

טָמְאָה: of ethical uncleanness, from wrong-doing (Micah 2:10)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 162 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 34:5 Soon Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter, Dinah. But since his sons were out in the fields herding his livestock, he said nothing until they returned.
  • Genesis 34:13 But since Shechem had defiled their sister, Dinah, Jacob’s sons responded deceitfully to Shechem and his father, Hamor.
  • Genesis 34:27 Meanwhile, the rest of Jacob’s sons arrived. Finding the men slaughtered, they plundered the town because their sister had been defiled there.
  • Leviticus 5:3 “Or suppose you unknowingly touch something that makes a person unclean. When you realize what you have done, you must admit your guilt.
  • Leviticus 11:24 “The following creatures will make you ceremonially unclean. If any of you touch their carcasses, you will be defiled until evening.
  • Leviticus 11:25 If you pick up their carcasses, you must wash your clothes, and you will remain defiled until evening.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).