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Hebrew wordlink #56460

OSHB Lev 20:3 טַמֵּא (ţammēʼ) Strongs=2930 a Lemma=‘טָמֵא’
contextual word gloss=‘to_make_unclean’ word gloss=‘defiling’
Morphology=Vpc PoS=piel_verb Type=infinitive_construct
Year=-1490

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Only use of identical word form ‘טַמֵּא’ (Morphology=Vpc PoS=piel_verb Type=infinitive_construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘טַמֵּא’ (Morphology=Vpc PoS=piel_verb Type=infinitive_construct) is always and only glossed as ‘to_make_unclean’.

LEV 20:3 contextual word gloss=‘to_make_unclean’ word gloss=‘defiling’ OSHB LEV 20:3 word 16

OET-LV: 3 And_I I _will _set DOM face _of_my on_person (the)_that and_I _will _cut _off DOM_him/it from_the _midst _of his _people _of_his if/because one_of_his _offspring he _has _given to_Molek so _as to _make _unclean DOM sanctuary _of_my and_to_profane DOM the _name _of my _holiness _of_my. (LEV_20:3)

OET-RV: 3 Yes, I myself will personally punish that person and cut them off from the people for giving their child to Molek and so making my sanctuary ‘unclean’ and profaning my sacred name. (LEV 20:3)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘טָמֵא’’ have 2 different glosses: ‘surely_(declare_unclean)’, ‘to_make_unclean’.