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Leviticus 18:25
“And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
טָמֵאṭâmêʼ · taw-may'
H2930 · Hebrew
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
- וַ — conjunction
- תִּטְמָ֣א — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular
- 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.