Strong's Hebrew · H2931

H2931 ṭâmêʼ

טָמֵא

taw-may'

defiled, [phrase] infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.

When ṭâmêʼ is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

foul in a religious sense

Derivation

from H2930 (טָמֵא);

Appears 88 times in Scripture

Numbers 9:7

and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”

Leviticus 7:19

Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

Leviticus 13:15

When the priest sees the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.

Leviticus 5:2

Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

Leviticus 13:11

it is a chronic skin disease and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not isolate him, for he is unclean.

Leviticus 14:57

to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”

When ṭâmêʼ is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what ṭâmêʼ means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Numbers 9:7 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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