15 occurrences in 11 translations

'Pollute' in the Bible

And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSuffering From ForeignersProsperity Of The Wicked

My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodHeavenly FacesEntering The TempleGod Changing His MindPolluting Holy PlacesInterlopers In The Temple

And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Verse ConceptsGrainListeningTemptressesKept Alive By MenProphesying LiesRemaining FoodMisusing God's NameKilling Israelitesmagic

And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, In whose midst they are, Before whose eyes I became known to them, To bring them out from the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfKnowing God, Nature OfProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them forth.

Verse ConceptsProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

And I have turned back My hand, And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them out.

Verse ConceptsProfaning God's NameBringing People Out Of Other PlacesLooking At God's Works

and I pronounced them unclean because of their offerings [to their idols], in that they made all their firstborn pass through the fire [as pagan sacrifices], so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.”’

Verse ConceptsFirstbornChild sacrificeSacrificing The FirstbornPeople Being PollutedKilling Sons And Daughters

Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Do ye pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play ye the harlot after their abominations?

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Idolatry IsImitating Wicked PeoplePeople Polluting ThemselvesThe Great Prostitute

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSacrifice, In OtInfanticideDegradationNot Enquiring Of GodPeople Polluting ThemselvesIdol WorshipFalse Religion To This DayKilling Sons And Daughters

As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

Verse ConceptsGiftsIrreverenceProfanityProfaning God's NameNot Worshipping IdolsPaying Attention To GodMisusing God's Name

Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesUnfaithfulness, To GodCorrupt PriestsClean And UncleanSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep CommandsLack Of Holiness

And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols They also come in unto My sanctuary in that day to pollute it, And lo, thus they have done in the midst of My house,

Verse ConceptsAt The Same TimeFood Offered To IdolsKilling Sons And Daughters

And one goeth in unto the nations whither they have gone, And they pollute My holy name by saying to them, The people of Jehovah are these, And from His land they have gone forth.

Verse ConceptsReproachHoliness, Purpose OfOther People Of GodMisusing God's Name

So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfHoliness, Purpose OfMission, Of IsraelProfanitySanctification, Nature And BasisProclaiming God’s NameGod's Things Revealed

In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Verse ConceptsBlood Of SacrificesPollutionsForeigners In The Holy PlacesBreaking The CovenantFat Of The SacrificesUncircumcised In HeartCovenant Made At Sinai

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Pollute (44 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּוּס 
Buwc 
Usage: 12

גּאל 
Ga'al 
Usage: 11

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 142

חנף 
Chaneph 
Usage: 11

טמא 
Tame' 
Usage: 162

טמא 
Tame' 
Usage: 88

עקב 
`aqob 
Usage: 3

ἀλίσγεμα 
Alisgema 
Usage: 1

κοινόω 
Koinoo 
Usage: 5

μίασμα 
Miasma 
Usage: 1

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