27 occurrences in 10 translations

'Impure' in the Bible

If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfWeeksTen Or More DaysTwo To Four MonthsBleedingPurifying OneselfHaving A Babychildbearing

‘Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond that period, all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue as though in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean.

Verse ConceptsBleedingAction For A Long Time

The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the Lord because of her impure discharge.’

Verse ConceptsPriests Atoning

Say to them, 'Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the Lord while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsRitual LawPollution ForbiddenI Am The LordThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated AnimalsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Animals Having A SoulDeerEating Meat

Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

Verse ConceptsBadgersAnimals, Types OfUnclean SpiritsRock BadgerUnclean Animals

Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

Verse ConceptsTouchPigsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsEating Forbidden FoodUnclean Animalspork

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

Verse ConceptsUnclean SpiritsUnclean AnimalsFish

and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you -- they may not be eaten.

Verse ConceptsInsectsClean And Uncleanbugs

You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

Verse ConceptsOutside The CampSemen

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Perverse SexualitySecond MarriageDefilementHusband And WifeWifeA Good Husbandspousemarraige

But if your own land is impure, cross over to the Lord's own land, where the Lord himself lives, and settle down among us. But don't rebel against the Lord or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelRebellion Against God, Nature OfThe Altar Of The LordBuilding AltarsGod Living In The TabernacleUnclean Things

You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: “The land you are entering to possess is an impure land. The surrounding peoples have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness by their impurity and detestable practices.

Verse ConceptsGod Spoke By The ProphetsUnclean Things

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart.

Verse ConceptsCoatsNominal ReligionWicked Described AsProfessingArtificialnessOverlaid With SilverShowing Hypocrisy

And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”

Verse ConceptsGoldMenstruationOverlaid With SilverAbandoning IdolsUnclean Things

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

Verse ConceptsFalse Religiondrink offeringHost Of HeavenRoofAltars, PaganRooftopDifferent Gods

A sin hath Jerusalem sinned, Therefore impure she hath become, All who honoured her have esteemed her lightly, For they have seen her nakedness, Yea, she herself hath sighed and turneth backward.

Verse ConceptsNakednessSin, Effects OfTurning RoundLosing HonourGod's People SinningCatastrophic Events

פ PeZion stretches out her hands;there is no one to comfort her.The Lord has issued a decree against Jacobthat his neighbors should be his adversaries.Jerusalem has becomesomething impure among them.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSitting In DejectionNo Comfort

But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”

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

They'll fling their silver into the streets, and their gold will be cast away as impure. Their silver and gold won't be able to deliver them during the time of the LORD's wrath. They won't be able to satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs, because their iniquity has tripped them up."

Verse ConceptsAbilityTo DeliverdissatisfactionGoldThrowing AwaySatisfactionStomachsStumblingTreasureSalvation Not By WorksSending Things AwayThe Entrance Of SinThings Which Cannot SaveHindering God's WorkMoney's DeficienciesSaving Money

" 'And the beauty of its ornament {he made into a prideful thing} and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them.

Verse ConceptsTreasureAbominations, Idolatry IsBeauty Of Thingsjewelry

“Then I will give to the peoples [clear and pure speech from] purified lips [which reflect their purified hearts],That all of them may call on the name of the Lord,To serve Him shoulder to shoulder (united).

Verse ConceptsShouldersCalling upon GodHoliness, Purpose OfPurity, Moral And SpiritualCompanionshipLanguagePuritySpeechpeople

Bible Theasaurus

Coarse (9 instances)
Dirty (13 instances)
Indecent (6 instances)
Unclean (414 instances)

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