59 occurrences in 9 translations

'Touches' in the Bible

So he issued this order to everyone: "Whoever touches this man or his wife is to be executed."

Verse ConceptsTouching To HarmDeath Penalty For KillingThe King's Orders

Suppose my father touches me. Then I will be revealed to him as a deceiver and bring a curse rather than a blessing on myself.”

Verse ConceptsThose Who Are Liars

Put boundaries for the people all around the mountain and say: Be careful that you don’t go up on the mountain or touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesDeath As Punishmentborders

For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. The altar will become especially holy; whatever touches the altar will become holy.

Verse ConceptsTouchSeven DaysTouching Holy ThingsAtoning By SacrificesSanctification

Consecrate them and they will be especially holy. Whatever touches them will be consecrated.

Verse ConceptsTouchTouching Holy Things

Or if someone touches anything unclean—a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature—without being aware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

Verse ConceptsLivestockCarcass, Literal UseContaminationIgnorance Of EvilPeople Being PollutedRules About CorpsesGuiltpork

Or if he touches human uncleanness—any uncleanness by which one can become defiled—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he is guilty.

Verse ConceptsIgnorance Of EvilSin Made Known

Any male among Aaron’s descendants may eat it. It is a permanent portion throughout your generations from the fire offerings to the Lord. Anything that touches the offerings will become holy.”

Verse ConceptsGenerationsTouchMen WorshippingTouching Holy ThingsPermitted To Eat Offerings

Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of its blood spatters on a garment, then you must wash that garment in a holy place.

Verse ConceptsBlood Of SacrificesRitual WashingWashingTouching Holy ThingsClean Clothes

“Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. Everyone who is clean may eat any other meat.

Verse ConceptsSanitation, DisinfectionTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsForbidden FoodUnclean Animals

If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable creature, and eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice, that person must be cut off from his people.”

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Ceremonial MattersPollutionsTouching Unclean ThingsPeople Being PollutedThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

“These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Eveningbugs

All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.

Verse ConceptsSanitation, FoodTouching Unclean ThingsCleft HoofsNoting What Animals Eat

All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsUnclean Until EveningFeet Of CreaturesClean And UncleanUnclean Animalscats

These are unclean for you among all the swarming creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsUnclean Until Evening

A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean Things

“If one of the animals that you use for food dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until EveningRules About Corpses

Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsMedicineTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Evening

Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Evening

Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Evening

If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands in water, the person who was touched is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsContaminationPollutionsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Evening

Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

Verse ConceptsClayBreaking Containers

“When a woman has a discharge, and it consists of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her menstruation for seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsDischargesWeeksQuarantiningQuarantineSeven DaysBleedingTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until EveningSeven Days For Legal Purposes

Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

Everyone who touches any furniture she was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Evening

When a man has sexual relations with her and her menstrual uncleanness touches him, he will be unclean for seven days. Every bed where he sleeps will remain unclean.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysSex And UncleannessSeven Days For Legal PurposesUnclean Things

Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,

Verse ConceptsLeprosySkinSemenDischargesRules About Corpses

or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean—whatever his uncleanness—

Verse ConceptsCrawling

the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.

Verse ConceptsTouching Holy ThingsUnclean Until Evening

Anyone who touches a body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person will be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean because the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

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

Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesGrave, TheTombsCemeterySeven DaysTouching Unclean ThingsRules About CorpsesSeven Days For Legal Purposesnatural Death

This is a permanent statute for them. The person who sprinkles the water for impurity is to wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingPerpetual StatutesSprinkling WaterClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Evening

Then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah; it touches Jericho and ends [at] the Jordan;

The south [is] Ephraim's, and the north [is] Manasseh's; the sea is their border; Asher touches [the] north and on [the] east Issachar.

Their border goes up to the west, to Maralah; it touches Dabbesheth, then the wadi that [is] opposite Jokneam.

and the border touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. {Its border ends} at the Jordan; sixteen cities and their villages.

Verse ConceptsSixteen

Allamelech, Amad, and Mishal; it touches Carmel to the west, and Shihor-Libnat.

Then it turns {eastward} to Beth-dagon and touches Zebulun and the valley of Yiptah-El to the north to Beth Emeck and Neiel; it continues to Cabul from [the] north,

then the border turns to the west, to Aznoth Tabor, and continues from there to Hukok, and it touches Zebulun on [the] south, Asher on [the] west, and Judah on {the east} [at] the Jordan.

While the men in ambush were waiting in her room, she called out to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings as a strand of yarn snaps when it touches fire. The secret of his strength remained unknown.

Verse ConceptsAmbush

The man who touches themmust be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear.They will be completely burned up on the spot.

Verse ConceptsIronToolsTouching To HarmBurning People

“But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;It touches you, and you are dismayed.

Verse ConceptsFaintingTrouble, Causes Ofdiscouragement

Though his arrogance reaches heaven,and his head touches the clouds,

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural Use

“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you,And your righteousness affects only a son of man [but it cannot affect God, who is sovereign].

Verse ConceptsActing For Oneselfwickednesshurting

He looks at the earth, and it trembles;He touches the mountains,and they pour out smoke.

Verse ConceptsSmokeTouchGod Shaking The EarthTremblingsmoking

So it is with the one who sleeps withanother man’s wife;no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Verse ConceptsTouchTouching To HarmAvoid AdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual SinPunishments

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace’; whereas a sword touches the throat.”

Verse ConceptsGod DeceivingNo Peace

Though it is planted, will it thrive and grow? Will it not completely wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.”’”

Verse ConceptseastOut Of The EastPlants Growing UpThe East Wind

Think about Assyria, that cedar of Lebanon, beautiful with its branches, like a shady forest, with an awesome height, its summit touches the clouds.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfCedarPride, Examples OfTreesThings On High

The Lord, the God of Hosts—He touches the earth;it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn;all of it rises like the Nileand subsides like the Nile of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsEarth On FireTouchTouching To HarmGod As A WarriorPeople Mourning CatastropheThings FallingThings Going Up

If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does it become holy?”The priests answered, “No.”

Verse ConceptsFringe Of ClothesTouching Holy ThingsDissent

Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?”The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”

Verse ConceptsAnswering PeopleBeing Gay

For the Lord of Hosts says this: “He has sent Me for His glory against the nations who are plundering you, for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.

Verse ConceptsFruitPersecution, Nature OfApple Of The EyeTouching To HarmEyes Cared ForEyes HarmedEyes

And the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spoke with himself saying, This person if he were a prophet would have known who and what the woman is who touches him, for she is a sinner.

Verse ConceptsSinnersUncharitablenessChrist Knowing About PeopleSoliloquyWho Is This?What Kind?Jesus The Prophet

for they could not bear what was commanded: And if even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned!

Verse ConceptsTouching Holy ThingsInstructions About StoningUnbearable Things

Bible Theasaurus

Pinch (3 instances)
Signature (4 instances)
Speck (6 instances)
Touches (59 instances)
Touching (136 instances)
Trace (12 instances)

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