22 occurrences

'Polluted' in the Bible

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Made OfDefilement, Ceremonial CausesArchitectureToolsCutting StonesLack Of Holiness

Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfUnfaithfulness, To GodPollutions

These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

Verse ConceptsDeposed Priests

These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

Verse ConceptsArchivesDeposed Priests

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnSanctity Of LifeSin, Effects OfIdolatry Consists OfInnocent BloodSheddingPolluting The LandIdol WorshipKilling Sons And Daughters

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Verse Conceptsdouble mindednessFountainsProverbsSpring Of Waterpressure

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

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

"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTSin, Effects OfPolluting The LandDivorceLeaving Parents For SpouseWaiting Till Marriagepotential

"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

Verse ConceptsNomadsUsing RoadsPolluting The LandSpiritual HarlotrySex Between NationsThings On High

It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Verse ConceptsWoodAnimismPolluting The LandWorship At TreesInfidelityadultry

First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.

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

Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofMouthsYouthAnimals Torn To PiecesBeing Devoted From YouthDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsPeople Being UncleanForbidden Food

and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornChild sacrificeSacrificing The FirstbornPeople Being PollutedKilling Sons And Daughters

There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

Verse ConceptsCharacter Of SaintsPeople RememberingPeople Polluting Themselves

The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

Verse ConceptsBedsPeople Being PollutedSpiritual HarlotrySex Between Nations

These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

Verse ConceptsPeople Polluting ThemselvesSpiritual HarlotryIdol Worship

They won't pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsMournersPollutionsRepulsive FoodMourning DeathMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsNot Pleasing God

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelPollutionsWoe To The Wicked

You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'

Verse ConceptsDefilement, Ceremonial CausesTablesInfidelity To GodUnclean SpiritsUnclean Animals

"But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'

Verse ConceptsProfanityProfaning God's NameMisusing God's NameUnclean Things

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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