6 occurrences

'Unclean' in the Bible

Then the Lord said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them.”

Verse ConceptsExile In ProspectUnclean Thingspoop

But I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth.”

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

and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the Lord.”’

Verse ConceptsFirstbornChild sacrificeSacrificing The FirstbornPeople Being PollutedKilling Sons And Daughters

In you they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationNakednessNakedness UncoveredBleedingShaming PeopleSex And Uncleanness

Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

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

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Function In Ot TimesTeachersMan DifferentiatingClean And UncleanTeaching The Way Of GodDiscernment

Bible Theasaurus

Dirty (13 instances)
Impure (44 instances)
Soiled (3 instances)
Unclean (414 instances)

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