# טָמֵא (tame)

Israeli respelling: ta-me. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2931. 78 Old Testament occurrences.

foul in a religious sense

King James renderings: defiled, [phrase] infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tame-h2931

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/2) — Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclea…
- [Leviticus 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/7/19) — And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shal…
- [Leviticus 7:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/7/21) — Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and…
- [Leviticus 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/10/10) — And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
- [Leviticus 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/4) — Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, b…
- [Leviticus 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/5) — And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- [Leviticus 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/6) — And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- [Leviticus 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/7) — And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
- [Leviticus 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/8) — Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
- [Leviticus 11:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/26) — The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that tou…
- [Leviticus 11:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/27) — And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcas…
- [Leviticus 11:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/28) — And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
- [Leviticus 11:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/29) — These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after…
- [Leviticus 11:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/31) — These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
- [Leviticus 11:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/35) — And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken…
- [Leviticus 11:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/38) — But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
- [Leviticus 11:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/47) — To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
- [Leviticus 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/11) — It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
- [Leviticus 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/15) — And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
- [Leviticus 13:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/36) — Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclea…
- [Leviticus 13:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/44) — He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
- [Leviticus 13:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/45) — And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shal…
- [Leviticus 13:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/46) — All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habita…
- [Leviticus 13:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/51) — And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a ski…
- [Leviticus 13:55](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/55) — And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be…
- [Leviticus 14:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/40) — Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without…
- [Leviticus 14:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/41) — And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into…
- [Leviticus 14:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/44) — Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclea…
- [Leviticus 14:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/45) — And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth…
- [Leviticus 14:57](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/57) — To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
- [Leviticus 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/2) — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclea…
- [Leviticus 15:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/25) — And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all…
- [Leviticus 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/26) — Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall…
- [Leviticus 15:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/33) — And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is…
- [Leviticus 20:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/25) — Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls a…
- [Leviticus 22:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/4) — What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso…
- [Leviticus 27:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/11) — And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
- [Leviticus 27:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/27) — And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it…
- [Numbers 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/5/2) — Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by th…
- [Numbers 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/6) — And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came be…
- [Numbers 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/7) — And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the…
- [Numbers 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/10) — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a jou…
- [Numbers 18:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/15) — Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: neverthel…
- [Numbers 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/13) — Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul sha…
- [Numbers 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/15) — And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
- [Numbers 19:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/17) — And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto…
- [Numbers 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/19) — And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himse…
- [Numbers 19:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/20) — But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath de…
- [Numbers 19:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/22) — And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
- [Deuteronomy 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/15) — Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD t…
- [Deuteronomy 12:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/22) — Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
- [Deuteronomy 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/7) — Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the…
- [Deuteronomy 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/8) — And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch th…
- [Deuteronomy 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/10) — And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
- [Deuteronomy 14:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/19) — And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
- [Deuteronomy 15:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/22) — Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
- [Deuteronomy 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/14) — I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead:…
- [Joshua 22:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/19) — Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD…
- [Judges 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/13/4) — Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
- [2 Chronicles 23:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/23/19) — And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
- [Job 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/4) — Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
- [Ecclesiastes 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/2) — All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to…
- [Isaiah 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/6/5) — Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine…
- [Isaiah 35:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/8) — And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be f…
- [Isaiah 52:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/52/1) — Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more co…
- [Isaiah 52:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/52/11) — Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of t…
- [Isaiah 64:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/6) — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like…
- [Jeremiah 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/13) — And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon…
- [Lamentations 4:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/15) — They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, T…
- [Ezekiel 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/13) — And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
- [Ezekiel 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/5) — Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
- [Ezekiel 22:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/10) — In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
- [Ezekiel 22:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/26) — Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither hav…
- [Ezekiel 44:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/23) — And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
- [Hosea 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/3) — They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
- [Amos 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/17) — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy lan…
- [Haggai 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/2/13) — Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shal…
- [Haggai 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/2/14) — Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; an…