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# טָמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2933

**we are stopped up** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

we are stopped up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2933/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָמָה: vb. e.g. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2933/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pf. נִטְמִינוּ we are stopped up, stupid Jb 18:3 so Thes MV Di De Zö (Aramaic טַמֵּם, טַמְטֵם stop up (e.g. of ear or heart), ܛܰܡܶܡ, etc., and deriv.; Arabic طَمَّ fill or choke up); 𝔙 Ew Hgst AV RV Da SS take it as metaplastic for נִטְמֵאנוּ we are regarded as unclean, see Ew§ 198 b Köi, 614; 𝔊 reads נִדְמִינוּ σεσιωπήκαμεν; 𝔗 טְמַעֲנָא.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: are we considered stupid? (1).

## In the verses

[Job 18:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.3/#tree)

מַ֭דּוּעַ נֶחְשַׁ֣בְנוּ כַבְּהֵמָ֑ה נִ֝טְמִ֗ינוּ בְּעֵינֵיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* why? are.we.regarded like (the) cattle are.we.considered.stupid? in eyes your

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2933.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2933/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).