טָמָה
ṭâmâh · taw-maw'
to be impure in a religious sense
Lexicon
Derivation: a collateral form of H2930 (טָמֵא);
to be impure 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: be defiled, be reputed vile.
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
- 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 › to reveal, behold
To surround and contain of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of טָמָה 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
1 occurrences · 1 OT · 0 NT · 1 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- neither shall ye make yourselves unclean1 · 50%
- and reputed vile1 · 50%
Where it is used, by book.
- Job1
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.