טֻמְאָה
ṭumʼâh · toom-aw'
religious impurity
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2930 (טָמֵא);
religious impurity
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: filthiness, unclean(-ness).
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to surround and contain › water, chaos, the mighty deep › strength, the leader › to reveal, behold
To surround and contain of water, chaos, the mighty deep of strength, the leader that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of טֻמְאָה 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
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 33 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- any unclean3 · 10%
- whatsoever uncleanness2 · 7%
- having his uncleanness2 · 7%
- of her uncleanness2 · 7%
- the uncleanness1 · 3%
- thing, as the uncleanness1 · 3%
- from his uncleanness1 · 3%
- and this shall be his uncleanness1 · 3%
- it is his uncleanness1 · 3%
- as the uncleanness1 · 3%
- from their uncleanness1 · 3%
- not in their uncleanness1 · 3%
- place, because of the uncleanness1 · 3%
- of their uncleanness1 · 3%
- it from the uncleanness1 · 3%
- for her uncleanness1 · 3%
- to uncleanness1 · 3%
- his uncleanness1 · 3%
- from her uncleanness1 · 3%
- all the uncleanness1 · 3%
- themselves unto them from the filthiness1 · 3%
- with their uncleanness1 · 3%
- her filthiness1 · 3%
- thy filthiness1 · 3%
- and that the filthiness1 · 3%
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.