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Isaiah 30:22
“Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2930 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, [idiom] utterly.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- טִמֵּאתֶ֗ם — verb Piel, sequential perfect, 2nd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 162 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 34:5Genesis 34:13Genesis 34:27Leviticus 5:3Leviticus 11:24
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read טָמֵא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.