Hebrew

To defile

טָמָהStrong’s H2933

tamah (ta-mah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “are we considered stupid”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?”

Meaning

How it's translated

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

טָמָה tamah · to defile

1) (Niphal) to be stopped up 1a) to be regarded as unclean (metaplastic)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “defile” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DEFILE, verb transitive

To make unclean; to render foul or dirty; in a general sense.
To make impure; to render turbid; as, the water or liquor is defiled.
To soil or sully; to tarnish; as reputation, etc.“They shall defile thy brightness” Ezekiel 28:7
To pollute; to make ceremonially unclean.“That which dieth of itself, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith” Leviticus 22:8

All definitions and other forms of “defile”

To corrupt chastity; to debauch; to violate; to tarnish the purity of character by lewdness.
To taint, in a moral sense; to corrupt; to vitiate; to render impure with sin.“DEFILE not yourselves with the idols of Egypt” Ezekiel 20:7“He hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord” Numbers 19:20

DEFILE, verb intransitive

[Latin A thread.]

To march off in a line, or file by file; to file off.

DEFILE, noun

A narrow passage or way, in which troops may march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long narrow pass, as between hills, etc.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.