16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17 And the Babylonians Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
H2930
טָמֵא
tame'
taw-may'
Verb
a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated):--defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, × utterly.
- to be unclean, become unclean, become impure
- (Qal) to be or become unclean
- sexually
- religiously
- ceremonially
- (Niphal)
- to defile oneself, be defiled 1b
- sexually 1b
- by idolatry 1b
- ceremonially
- to be regarded as unclean
- (Piel)
- to defile 1c
- sexually 1c
- religiously 1c
- ceremonially
- to pronounce unclean, declare unclean (ceremonially)
- to profane (God's name)
- (Pual) to be defiled
- (Hithpael) to be unclean
- (Hothpael) to be defiled
- (Qal) to be or become unclean
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