טָמֵא
ṭâmêʼ · taw-may'
foul in a religious sense
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2930 (טָמֵא);
foul in a religious sense
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: defiled, [phrase] infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.
Letters
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to surround and contain › water, chaos, the mighty deep › strength, the leader
To surround and contain of water, chaos, the mighty deep of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of טָמֵא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
88 occurrences · 88 OT · 0 NT · 44 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- he is unclean8 · 16%
- it is unclean6 · 12%
- of unclean5 · 10%
- unclean4 · 8%
- and between unclean2 · 4%
- they are unclean2 · 4%
- into an unclean2 · 4%
- any unclean2 · 4%
- is unclean2 · 4%
- between the unclean2 · 4%
- the unclean2 · 4%
- or any unclean1 · 2%
- upon shall be unclean1 · 2%
- are unclean1 · 2%
- she shall be unclean1 · 2%
- from him; he also shall be unclean1 · 2%
- him up: for he is unclean1 · 2%
- thereon, it shall be unclean1 · 2%
- and shall be unclean1 · 2%
- for they are unclean1 · 2%
- these are unclean1 · 2%
- them into an unclean1 · 2%
- these also shall be unclean1 · 2%
- those are unclean1 · 2%
- of an unclean1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.