18 occurrences

'Unclean' in the Bible

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister when they die; for the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Verse ConceptsLove Between RelativesNot Honouring Parents

And there were men, who were unclean through the dead body of a man, and could not hold the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

And those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not present the offering of Jehovah at its set time among the children of Israel?

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your generations be unclean by reason of a dead body or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall hold the passover to Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsJourneyRules About Corpses

Everything that breaketh open the womb of all flesh, which they present to Jehovah, of men or of beasts, shall be thine; nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou in any case ransom, and the firstborn of unclean beasts shalt thou ransom.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornAnimals, religious role ofWomb

And the priest shall wash his garments, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until the even;

Verse ConceptsClean ClothesPeople Being PollutedUnclean Until Evening

and he that hath burned it shall wash his garments in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

Verse ConceptsClean ClothesPeople Being PollutedUnclean Until Evening

And he that hath gathered the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. And it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, an everlasting statute.

Verse ConceptsAshesRitual WashingStrangersClean ClothesPeople Being PollutedUnclean Until EveningForeigners Included In The Law

Whoever toucheth a dead person, the dead body of a man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; for the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him: he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

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

This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysSeven Days For Legal Purposes

And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.

Verse ConceptsOpening ContainersUnclean Things

And every one that toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead person, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

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

And they shall take for the unclean of the ashes of the purification-offering that hath been burned, and shall put running water thereon in a vessel;

Verse ConceptsAshesAshes Of Sacrifices

and the clean shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and he shall purify him on the seventh day; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

Verse ConceptsEveningSprinkling WaterClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

And the man that is unclean, and doth not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, for he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled on him: he is unclean.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingSanctuaryExcommunicationDisfellowshipSprinkling WaterPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

And it shall be an everlasting statute unto them. And he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his garments, and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingPerpetual StatutesSprinkling WaterClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

And whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Verse ConceptsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean Until Evening

Bible Theasaurus

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