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Strong's #2933 - טָמָה
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- (Niphal) to be stopped up
- to be regarded as unclean (metaplastic)
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1197) mu (תהמ ThM) AC: ? CO: Unclean AB: ?: The pictograph u is a picture of a basket or container, the m is a picture of water. Combined these mean "container of water". A bowl of water is used to wash dirt off.
C) mua (אתהמ AThM) AC: Shut CO: Shut AB: ?: [Unknown connection to root]
V) mua (אתהמ AThM) - Shut: The closing of the eyes, ears or a window. KJV (8): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) narrow, stop, shut - Strongs: H331 (אָטַם)
E) amu (תהמא ThMA) AC: ? CO: Unclean AB: ?
V) amu (תהמא ThMA) - Unclean: KJV (161): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael, Pual, Piel) unclean, defile, pollute - Strongs: H2930 (טָמֵא)
Nm) amu (תהמא ThMA) - Unclean: KJV (87): unclean, defiled, infamous, polluted, pollution - Strongs: H2931 (טָמֵא)
of1) eamfu (תהומאה ThWMAH) - Unclean: KJV (37): uncleanness, filthiness, unclean - Strongs: H2932 (טֻמְאָה)
H) emu (תהמה ThMH) AC: ? CO: Unclean AB: ?
V) emu (תהמה ThMH) - Unclean: KJV (2): (vf: Niphal) defile, vile - Strongs: H2933 (טָמָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Niph`al Perfect נִטְמִינוּ we are stopped up, stupid Job 18:3 so Thes MV Di De Zö (Aramaic טַמֵּם, טַמְטֵם stop up (e.g. of ear or heart), 
, etc., and derivatives; Arabic 
fill or choke up); ᵑ9 Ew Hengst AV RV Da SS take it as metaplastic for נִטְמֵאנוּ we are regarded as unclean, see Ew§ 198 b Kö i, 614; ᵐ5 reads נִדְמִינוּ σεσιωπήκαμεν; ᵑ7טְמַעֲנָא.
טָמָה i.q. טָמֵא; at least some of the forms of this verb follow the analogy of verbs לה֞. So
Niphal נִטְמֵתֶם Leviticus 11:43, and Job 18:3, נִטְמִינוּ בְּעֵינֵכֶם “we are unclean in your eyes,” i.e. impious, compare Job 14:4. Some, however, of the Hebrew interpreters, without violence to the parallelism, take טָמָה to be the same as טְמַם, אָטַם to be stopped up, i.e. to be stupid. Vulg. sorduimus.
