טֻמְאָהṭumʼâh
uncleanness
Pronunciation: toom-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2932
Meanings
1. sexual (Numbers 5:19; Lamentations 1:9)
2. of a foul or filthy mass (Ezekiel 24:11; 2 Chronicles 29:16)
3. ethical and religious (Leviticus 16:16; Ezekiel 22:15; Ezekiel 24:13)
4. ritual (Leviticus 5:3; Leviticus 7:20; Leviticus 7:21)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 36 times in the Bible.
- 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 7:20 If you are ceremonially unclean and you eat meat from a peace offering that was presented to the Lord, you will be cut off from the community.
- Leviticus 7:21 If you touch anything that is unclean (whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing) and then eat meat from a peace offering presented to the Lord, you will be cut off from the community.”
- Leviticus 14:19 “Then the priest must present the sin offering to purify the person who was cured of the skin disease. After that, the priest will slaughter the burnt offering
- Leviticus 15:3 This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.
- Leviticus 15:25 “If a woman has a flow of blood for many days that is unrelated to her menstrual period, or if the blood continues beyond the normal period, she is ceremonially unclean. As during her menstrual period, the woman will be unclean as long as the discharge continues.
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).