6 occurrences

'Defiles' in the Bible

"Now if the daughter of any priest defiles herself by being a prostitute, she defiles her father. She is to be incinerated.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCremationAdulterersProfanityProstitutionPunishment, Legal Aspects OfHarlotsBurning Peoplebranding

This is the law in cases of jealousy when a woman defiles herself while under her husband's authority:

Verse ConceptsThose Jealous For People

Anyone who comes in contact with a dead person (that is, with the corpse of a human being who has died), but who does not purify himself, defiles the LORD's tent. That person is to be eliminated from Israel, because the water of impurity wasn't sprinkled on him. He remains unclean and his uncleanness will remain with him.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationRitual WashingSprinklingContaminationSprinkling WaterTouching Unclean ThingsPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

You are not to pollute the land where you live, because blood defiles the land, and the land cannot atone for blood that has been spilled on it, except through the blood of the one who spilled it.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahAtonement, in OTSheddingHuman Blood ShedPolluting The LandLifebloodAtoning By SacrificesJudgement On MurderersThe Environmentcleansing

even though the father hasn't done any of these things. The son who eats at mountain shrines, defiles his neighbor's wife,

Verse ConceptsShrinesAdulteryHow People EatSacrificing On The High Places

One of you commits detestable practices with his neighbor's wife. Another sexually defiles his daughter-in-law. Another humiliates his sister, his own father's daughter.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsLewdnessdaughtersOffenceSexual Sin, Nature OfSisters

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Corrupt (70 instances)
Defile (89 instances)
Defiles (20 instances)
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Stain (9 instances)
Taint (1 instance)
Tarnish (1 instance)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
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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