69 occurrences

'Defiled' in the Bible

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAdultery, Examples OfRulersRape

And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character OfRapeIndividuals Being SilentPeople Being Polluted

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed SistersThose Who Deceivedhumor

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed Sisters

Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

Verse ConceptsIgnorance Of EvilSin Made Known

Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

Verse ConceptsPeople Polluting ThemselvesHating UncleannessThe Environment

All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

Verse ConceptsCamps, Unclean ThingsQuarantiningQuarantineIsolated PersonsOutside The Camp

This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;

Verse ConceptsDischargesSemen

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Verse ConceptsPollutionsPollution ForbiddenThe Lord Will Drive Them OutDefilement

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsRetributionSin, Effects OfPolluting The LandDefilementovereating

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

Verse ConceptsPolluting The Land

And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesPollutionsPollution ForbiddenDeath Of A Family MemberGrandmothers

And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

Verse ConceptsBrothersSinglenessvirginity

Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

Verse ConceptsHealingLeprosyQuarantiningQuarantineDischarges

And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of Facts

And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

Verse ConceptsSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfThose Jealous For People

But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

Verse ConceptsLaws Of Sexual UnionSame Sex Marriage

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Verse ConceptsThighsRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitter WaterSwellingBitternessInfidelityHurt And Betrayaladultry

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

Verse ConceptsConceptionUnpunished

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

Verse ConceptsThose Jealous For People

And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

Verse ConceptsBaldnessHairsHeadsThe Seventh Day Of The WeekPossibility Of DeathDay 7

And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

Verse ConceptsGuilt OfferingAnimal Sacrifices, Trespass OfferingUseless LabourAnimals At Specific Ages

And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingSanctuaryExcommunicationDisfellowshipSprinkling WaterPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedGallowsHangingHumiliationKillingPollutionsOvernightThe Curse Of The LawPeople Hung To DeathBurying places

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

Verse ConceptsCropsSeedSowing And ReapingVineyardMixing MaterialsPlanting SeedsFarmingSeedsSowing Seedsnegativitysowing

Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Perverse SexualitySecond MarriageDefilementHusband And WifeWifeA Good Husbandspousemarraige

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

Verse ConceptsGatesGovernorsHigh Places

And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsChild sacrificeHuman SacrificesPolluting The Landdrums

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesBirthrightsFirstborn Sons

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Israel's priests

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

Verse ConceptsSackcloth And AshesHorns Weakened

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBurning JerusalemLack Of Holiness

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsIrreverenceDestruction Of JerusalemPolluting Holy PlacesNations Attacking Israel

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Verse ConceptsActionsFalse ReligionSpiritual HarlotryDebaucheryProstitutionSin, Effects Of

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCovenant, God's with NoahGod, The EternalEcological ConcernsPolluting The LandBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's LawDefilement

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Verse ConceptsFingersBlemishBlood, Figurative UseLipsThe Lips Of The WickedTongueWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerKilling Many People

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Verse ConceptsCropsAbundance, MaterialFertile LandPolluting The LandThe Environment

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Verse ConceptsWoodAnimismPolluting The LandWorship At TreesInfidelityadultry

And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionCarcass, Literal UseAbominations, Idolatry IsPolluting The LandDouble Penalty

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

Verse ConceptsFalse Religiondrink offeringHost Of HeavenRoofAltars, PaganRooftopDifferent Gods

And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

Verse ConceptsExile In ProspectUnclean Thingspoop

Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfGod Without MercyNot SparingPolluting Holy PlacesDefilement

Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuaryCessationLimitations Of StrengthGod Opposes The ProudHouses Under AttackPeople Possessing Other ThingsPolluting Holy PlacesThings Stopping

And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfBleedingSex And UncleannessAdulteryAvoiding IdolatryHow People EatSacrificing On The High Places

And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,

Verse ConceptsShrinesAdulteryHow People EatSacrificing On The High Places

That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,

Verse ConceptsAdulteryHow People EatNot Worshipping IdolsSacrificing On The High Places

And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

Verse ConceptsCharacter Of SaintsPeople RememberingPeople Polluting Themselves

Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

Verse ConceptsSheddingPeople Polluting ThemselvesFound GuiltyJudged As Murderers

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsLewdnessdaughtersOffenceSexual Sin, Nature OfSisters

Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

Verse ConceptsPeople Polluting ThemselvesIdol Worship

And the 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.

Verse ConceptsBedsPeople Being PollutedSpiritual HarlotrySex Between Nations

Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

Verse ConceptsAt The Same TimePolluting Holy PlacesSabbath Violated

Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Verse ConceptsAshesMoney, Stewardship OfSanctuaryTradeTrustworthinessFire Of Judgement

Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

Verse ConceptsBleedingPolluting The Land

In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

Verse ConceptsDoorpostsProfaning God's NameDanger When God Is Near

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryGod Knowing His PeopleNorthern Kingdom Of IsraelThe Great Prostitute

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionSpiritual HarlotryThe Great Prostitute

Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

Verse ConceptsGathering Other NationsDealing With The NationsLack Of Holiness

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

Verse ConceptsDefilement, Objects OfBathing, For CleansingPurity, Nature OfThe Disciples ActionsPeople UnwashedHow People EatLack Of Holiness

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambExclusivenessGovernorsHigh Priest, In NtPalacesReligionArmies, RomanRoyal Houses

Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

Verse ConceptsConsciences, Description OfDefilement, Objects OfFood For Other godsNature Of Idolatryconscience

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalWalkingWorthinessWhite And Bright ClothesClothed With RighteousnessWhite ClothsClean ClothesFew PeopleFew In The KingdomWorthy PeopleThe Environment

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus Christdiscipleship, nature ofDefilement, By SinCommitment, to Jesus ChristAsceticism, TypesMarketsCelibacyMetaphorical Firstfruits144,000UniversalismDefilementFirst fruitsSexual PurityThe Rapturerevelationredeemedvirginity

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּאל 
Ga'al 
Usage: 11

גּאל 
Go'el 
Usage: 1

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 142

חנף 
Chaneph 
Usage: 11

טמא 
Tame' 
Usage: 162

טמא 
Tame' 
Usage: 88

טמה 
Tamah 
Usage: 1

טנף 
Tanaph 
Usage: 1

עלל 
`alal 
Usage: 19

ἀρσενοκοίτης 
Arsenokoites 
Usage: 2

κοινός 
Koinos 
Usage: 12

κοινόω 
Koinoo 
Usage: 5

μιαίνω 
Miaino 
Usage: 5

μολύνω 
Moluno 
Usage: 2

σπίλος 
Spilos 
Usage: 1

φθείρω 
Phtheiro 
Usage: 8

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