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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;"/><title>Topical Bible: Defiled</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/topical/d/defiled.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newtopical.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/topical/vmenus/mark/7-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmcde/d/defiled.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/topical/">Topical</a> > Defiled</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/topical/d/defile.htm" title="Defile">◄</a> Defiled <a href="/topical/d/defiled_bread.htm" title="Defiled Bread">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Jump to: <a href="#web" title="Webster's Dictionary">Webster's</a> • <a href="#cnc" title="Multiversion Concordance">Concordance</a> • <a href="#thes" title="Bible Thesaurus">Thesaurus</a> • <a href="#grk" title="Strong's Greek Concordance">Greek</a> • <a href="#heb" title="Strong's Hebrew Concordance">Hebrew</a> • <a href="#lib" title="Library">Library</a> • <a href="#sub" title="Subtopics">Subtopics</a> • <a href="#rel" title="Related Terms">Terms</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><a name="te" id="te"></a><div class="vheading2">Topical Encyclopedia</div>In biblical terms, the concept of being "defiled" refers to a state of impurity or uncleanness, often in a spiritual or moral sense. This condition can result from various actions, objects, or circumstances that are considered contrary to God's laws and holiness. The term is used extensively throughout the Bible to describe both physical and spiritual contamination. Old Testament Context In the Old Testament, the concept of defilement is closely associated with the Levitical laws, which outline various forms of impurity and the necessary rituals for purification. <a href="/bsb/leviticus/11.htm">Leviticus 11-15</a> provides detailed instructions on what constitutes defilement, including contact with unclean animals, skin diseases, and bodily discharges. For example, <a href="/leviticus/11-44.htm">Leviticus 11:44-45</a> states, "For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the ground." Defilement could also occur through idolatry and immoral behavior. In <a href="/ezekiel/20-7.htm">Ezekiel 20:7</a> , God commands the Israelites, "And I said to them, ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’" Here, defilement is linked to the worship of false gods and the adoption of pagan practices. New Testament Context In the New Testament, the focus shifts from ritual purity to moral and spiritual purity. Jesus Christ emphasized the importance of inner purity over external observance. In <a href="/mark/7-15.htm">Mark 7:15</a> , Jesus teaches, "Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, but what comes out of a man, that is what defiles him." This statement underscores the idea that defilement is a matter of the heart and is manifested through sinful thoughts and actions. The Apostle Paul also addresses the issue of defilement in his epistles. In <a href="/1_corinthians/3-16.htm">1 Corinthians 3:16-17</a> , he writes, "Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple." Here, defilement is linked to the desecration of the body, which is considered a temple of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual Implications Defilement in the biblical sense is not merely a physical condition but has profound spiritual implications. It represents a breach in the relationship between God and humanity, necessitating repentance and purification. The sacrificial system in the Old Testament provided a means for atonement and cleansing, pointing forward to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who offers complete purification from sin. In the Christian life, believers are called to maintain purity and avoid defilement by adhering to God's commandments and living a life that reflects His holiness. <a href="/james/1-27.htm">James 1:27</a> exhorts, "Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." Conclusion The biblical concept of defilement serves as a reminder of the holiness of God and the call for His people to live in purity and righteousness. It highlights the need for continual spiritual vigilance and the transformative power of Christ's redemptive work.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>(imp. & p. p.) of Defile.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/2839.htm">2839. koinos -- common</a> ... 2839 ("defiled") describes the of a person reducing what God calls () -- to what is , ie it of its sacredness. ... common, defiled, unclean, unholy. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2839.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/4508.htm">4508. rhuparos -- filthy</a> ... filthy. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: rhuparos Phonetic Spelling: (rhoo-par-os') Short Definition: filthy, defiled Definition: filthy, defiled ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4508.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/3392.htm">3392. miaino -- to stain, defile</a> ... [3392 () literally means "to dye, stain with color." Figuratively, it refers to rendering something morally (spiritually) defiled.]. Word Origin a prim. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3392.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/2840.htm">2840. koinoo -- to make common</a> ... See 2839 (). Word Origin from koinos Definition to make common NASB Word Usage consider (2), defile (7), defiled (2), defiles (3). call common, defile, pollute. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2840.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/3435.htm">3435. moluno -- to stain, defile</a> ... and Plato).]. Word Origin of uncertain origin Definition to stain, defile NASB Word Usage defiled (2), soiled (1). defile. Probably ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3435.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/2930.htm">2930. tame -- to be or become unclean</a> ... root Definition to be or become unclean NASB Word Usage became unclean (1), become defiled (3), become unclean (6), becomes unclean (13), becoming unclean (1 ... /hebrew/2930.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2931.htm">2931. tame -- unclean</a> ... Word Origin from tame Definition unclean NASB Word Usage defiled (1), ill (1), unclean (83), unclean thing (1), unclean woman (1), who was unclean (1). ... /hebrew/2931.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2933.htm">2933. tamah -- to be stopped up, stupid</a> ... be defiled, be reputed vile. A collateral form of tame'; to be impure in a religious sense -- be defiled, be reputed vile. see HEBREW tame'. 2932b, 2933. ... /hebrew/2933.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/1352.htm">1352. goel -- defiling, defilement</a> ... 1351, 1352. goel. 1353 . defiling, defilement. Transliteration: goel Phonetic Spelling: (go'-el) Short Definition: defiled. Word ... /hebrew/1352.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/1351.htm">1351. gaal -- to defile</a> ... 1350, 1351. gaal. 1352 . to defile. Transliteration: gaal Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-al') Short Definition: defiled. Word Origin a prim. ... /hebrew/1351.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/1602.htm">1602. gaal -- to abhor, loathe</a> ... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to abhor, loathe NASB Word Usage abhor (2), abhorred (1), abhors (1), defiled (1), fail (1), loathed (3), reject (1). ... /hebrew/1602.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/6942.htm">6942. qadash -- to be set apart or consecrated</a> ... Word Origin denominative verb from qodesh Definition to be set apart or consecrated NASB Word Usage become consecrated (2), become defiled (1), become holy (1 ... /hebrew/6942.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2490c.htm">2490c. chalal -- to pollute, defile, profane</a> ... 30), begin (10), begin to use its fruit (2), beginning (3), begun (7), begun to use its fruit (2), cast you as profane (1), defile (2), defiled (3), desecrate ... /hebrew/2490c.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/augustine/writings_in_connection_with_the_manichaean_controversy_/chapter_29_name_god_is.htm">That God is not Defiled by Our Sins.</a> ... Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manich??ans. Chapter 29. "That God is Not Defiled by Our Sins. And yet, though all ... /.../chapter 29 name god is.htm<a href="/library/augustine/writings_in_connection_with_the_manichaean_controversy_/the_scripture_passage_to_the.htm">The Scripture Passage: "To the Pure all Things are Pure, but to ...</a> ... The scripture passage: "To the pure all things are pure, but to the impure and defiled is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled," is ... /.../the scripture passage to the.htm<a href="/library/de_molinos/the_spiritual_guide_which_disentangles_the_soul/chap_i_no_minister_ought.htm">No Minister Ought to Keep a Faithful Person from the Communion ...</a> ... I. No Minister ought to keep a faithful Person from the Communion, that does desire and ask it, whilst he doth not know his Conscience defiled with mortal Sin. ... /.../the spiritual guide which disentangles the soul/chap i no minister ought.htm<a href="/library/origen/origens_commentary_on_the_gospel_of_matthew/12_things_clean_and_unclean.htm">Things Clean and Unclean According to the Law and the Gospel.</a> ... the mouth," [5433] and especially when, according to Mark, the Saviour said these things "making all meats clean," [5434] manifestly we are not defiled when we ... /.../origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/12 things clean and unclean.htm<a href="/library/tertullian/the_five_books_against_marcion/chapter_ix_out_of_st_lukes.htm">Out of St. Luke's Fifth ChapterAre Found Proofs of Christ's ...</a> ... who was not to be touched, but was rather to be removed from all intercourse with others), prohibited any communication with a person who was defiled with sins ... /.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/chapter ix out of st lukes.htm<a href="/library/augustine/homilies_on_the_gospel_of_john/tractate_cxiv_john_chapter_xviii.htm">John Chapter xviii. 28-32.</a> ... And then in explanation of the reason why they went not into the judgment hall, he says, "lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover ... /.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate cxiv john chapter xviii.htm<a href="/library/kingsley/the_good_news_of_god/sermon_xvi_the_pure_in.htm">The Pure in Heart</a> ... Titus 1:15. Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure: but even their mind and conscience is defiled. ... /.../christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the good news of god/sermon xvi the pure in.htm<a href="/library/tertullian/on_idolatry/chapter_xviii_dress_as_connected_with.htm">Dress as Connected with Idolatry.</a> ... For if that were the case, of course men of such holiness and constancy [297] would instantly have refused the defiled dresses; and it would instantly have ... /.../tertullian/on idolatry/chapter xviii dress as connected with.htm<a href="/library/watson/a_body_of_divinity/7_the_holiness_of_god.htm">The Holiness of God</a> ... But is he not privy to all the sins of men? How can he behold their impurities, and not be defiled? God sees all the sins of men ... //christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/7 the holiness of god.htm<a href="/library/augustine/anti-pelagian_writings/chapter_6_vi_another_error_out.htm">Another Error Out of his Second Book, to the Effect, that the Soul ...</a> ... person, having been so bold as to undertake what exceeds his powers, has fallen down such a precipice as to say, that the soul deserved to be defiled by the ... /.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 6 vi another error out.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/d/defiled.htm">Defiled (119 Occurrences)</a> ...Defiled (119 Occurrences). Mark 7:2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. ... /d/defiled.htm - 38k<a href="/topical/d/defilement.htm">Defilement (12 Occurrences)</a> ... 2. (n.) The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Int. ... /d/defilement.htm - 21k<a href="/topical/i/impure.htm">Impure (28 Occurrences)</a> ... 2. (a.) Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things. 3. (a.) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. ... /i/impure.htm - 14k<a href="/topical/n/neighbour's.htm">Neighbour's (30 Occurrences)</a> ... Ezekiel 18:6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's ... /n/neighbour's.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/n/neighbor's.htm">Neighbor's (31 Occurrences)</a> ... Ezekiel 18:6 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife ... /n/neighbor's.htm - 16k<a href="/topical/f/foolery.htm">Foolery</a> ... and thou shalt never be defiled with his fooleries." The Greek word is entinagmos, "a striking or throwing in," "an attack," from entinasso, "to strike into ... /f/foolery.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/t/topheth.htm">Topheth (9 Occurrences)</a> ... 6, 12, 13, 14. Josiah is said to have "defiled Topheth" as part of his great religious reforms (2 Kings 23:10). The site of this ... /t/topheth.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/d/defiles.htm">Defiles (12 Occurrences)</a> ... (See NIV). Numbers 5:29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; (See NAS RSV NIV). ... /d/defiles.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/i/impurity.htm">Impurity (42 Occurrences)</a> ... Numbers 5:13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness ... /i/impurity.htm - 21k<a href="/topical/d/defile.htm">Defile (63 Occurrences)</a> ... 18:20), or by intercourse at forbidden times (Leviticus 15:24 1 Samuel 21:5); of the land by adultery: "Shall not that land be greatly defiled?" (Jeremiah 3:1 ... /d/defile.htm - 38k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-defilement.html">What does the Bible say about defilement? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/pagan-practices.html">What laws were given to Israel in exact response to pagan practices? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/food-sacrificed-idols.html">What does the Bible say about eating food/meat that has been sacrificed to idols? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/defiled.htm">Defiled: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Defiled (119 Occurrences)<a href="/mark/7-2.htm">Mark 7:2</a> Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)<a href="/mark/7-5.htm">Mark 7:5</a> And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands? (ASV DBY RSV)<a href="/john/18-28.htm">John 18:28</a> They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/acts/21-28.htm">Acts 21:28</a> crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!" (WEB ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/8-7.htm">1 Corinthians 8:7</a> However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/titus/1-15.htm">Titus 1:15</a> To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/hebrews/9-13.htm">Hebrews 9:13</a> For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: (WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm">Hebrews 12:15</a> looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it; (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/revelation/3-4.htm">Revelation 3:4</a> Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. (KJV DBY WBS)<a href="/revelation/14-4.htm">Revelation 14:4</a> These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/genesis/34-2.htm">Genesis 34:2</a> And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. (KJV WBS)<a href="/genesis/34-5.htm">Genesis 34:5</a> Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/34-13.htm">Genesis 34:13</a> The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/34-27.htm">Genesis 34:27</a> Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/genesis/49-4.htm">Genesis 49:4</a> Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/5-3.htm">Leviticus 5:3</a> Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty. (KJV DBY WBS)<a href="/leviticus/11-43.htm">Leviticus 11:43</a> You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)<a href="/leviticus/13-46.htm">Leviticus 13:46</a> All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be. (KJV WBS)<a href="/leviticus/15-32.htm">Leviticus 15:32</a> This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith; (KJV DBY WBS)<a href="/leviticus/18-20.htm">Leviticus 18:20</a> And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. (See NAS)<a href="/leviticus/18-23.htm">Leviticus 18:23</a> And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto; it is perversion. (See NAS)<a href="/leviticus/18-24.htm">Leviticus 18:24</a> "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/18-25.htm">Leviticus 18:25</a> The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/18-27.htm">Leviticus 18:27</a> (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled); (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/19-31.htm">Leviticus 19:31</a> "'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/20-3.htm">Leviticus 20:3</a> I also will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name. (See NIV)<a href="/leviticus/21-1.htm">Leviticus 21:1</a> And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/leviticus/21-3.htm">Leviticus 21:3</a> And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/leviticus/21-7.htm">Leviticus 21:7</a> "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God. (See RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm">Leviticus 21:14</a> A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife. (WEB RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/22-4.htm">Leviticus 22:4</a> "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him; (See NIV)<a href="/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2</a> Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: (KJV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/numbers/5-13.htm">Numbers 5:13</a> and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/numbers/5-14.htm">Numbers 5:14</a> and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/numbers/5-20.htm">Numbers 5:20</a> But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/numbers/5-27.htm">Numbers 5:27</a> When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/numbers/5-28.htm">Numbers 5:28</a> If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/numbers/5-29.htm">Numbers 5:29</a> "'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/numbers/6-9.htm">Numbers 6:9</a> And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. (KJV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/numbers/6-12.htm">Numbers 6:12</a> He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/numbers/9-6.htm">Numbers 9:6</a> And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/numbers/9-7.htm">Numbers 9:7</a> And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/numbers/19-13.htm">Numbers 19:13</a> Whosoever toucheth a dead person, the body of a man that hath died, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. (See JPS YLT)<a href="/numbers/19-20.htm">Numbers 19:20</a> But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/21-23.htm">Deuteronomy 21:23</a> His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. (KJV WBS)<a href="/deuteronomy/22-9.htm">Deuteronomy 22:9</a> Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. (KJV WBS NAS NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/24-4.htm">Deuteronomy 24:4</a> her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/joshua/22-19.htm">Joshua 22:19</a> However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God. (See NIV)<a href="/2_samuel/1-21.htm">2 Samuel 1:21</a> You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil. (See NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_kings/23-8.htm">2 Kings 23:8</a> He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/2_kings/23-10.htm">2 Kings 23:10</a> He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_kings/23-13.htm">2 Kings 23:13</a> And the high places that 'are' on the front of Jerusalem, that 'are' on the right of the mount of corruption, that Solomon king of Israel had built to Ashtoreth abomination of the Zidonians, and Chemosh abomination of Moab, and to Milcom abomination of the sons of Ammon, hath the king defiled. (YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_kings/23-16.htm">2 Kings 23:16</a> As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)<a href="/2_kings/23-19.htm">2 Kings 23:19</a> All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. (See NIV)<a href="/1_chronicles/5-1.htm">1 Chronicles 5:1</a> The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)<a href="/2_chronicles/36-14.htm">2 Chronicles 36:14</a> All the chiefs of the priests also, and the people, increased their transgressions, according to all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. (DBY NAS)<a href="/nehemiah/13-29.htm">Nehemiah 13:29</a> Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/16-15.htm">Job 16:15</a> I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. (KJV WBS)<a href="/job/18-3.htm">Job 18:3</a> Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes! (YLT)<a href="/job/31-7.htm">Job 31:7</a> if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, (See NIV)<a href="/job/36-14.htm">Job 36:14</a> Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled. (YLT)<a href="/psalms/74-7.htm">Psalms 74:7</a> They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. (KJV WBS NAS NIV)<a href="/psalms/79-1.htm">Psalms 79:1</a> A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/89-39.htm">Psalms 89:39</a> You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust. (WEB RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/106-39.htm">Psalms 106:39</a> Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)<a href="/proverbs/25-26.htm">Proverbs 25:26</a> A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked. (DBY)<a href="/isaiah/24-5.htm">Isaiah 24:5</a> The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. (KJV JPS WBS YLT NIV)<a href="/isaiah/30-22.htm">Isaiah 30:22</a> And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, 'Go out,' thou sayest to it. (YLT)<a href="/isaiah/52-1.htm">Isaiah 52:1</a> Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision. (See NIV)<a href="/isaiah/59-3.htm">Isaiah 59:3</a> For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/jeremiah/2-7.htm">Jeremiah 2:7</a> I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/2-23.htm">Jeremiah 2:23</a> How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways; (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1</a> Saying, 'Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah. (YLT NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2</a> Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness. (See NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9</a> And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. (KJV WBS YLT NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/7-30.htm">Jeremiah 7:30</a> For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight, saith the LORD; they have set their detestable things in the house whereon My name is called, to defile it. (See NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/16-18.htm">Jeremiah 16:18</a> And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things. (KJV WBS NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/19-13.htm">Jeremiah 19:13</a> and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/32-34.htm">Jeremiah 32:34</a> And they set their abominations in the house over which My name is called, so as to defile it; (See NIV)<a href="/lamentations/4-14.htm">Lamentations 4:14</a> They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments. (See NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm">Ezekiel 4:13</a> And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. (KJV WBS YLT NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm">Ezekiel 4:14</a> Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been defiled, and from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or of that which is torn; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. (DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/5-11.htm">Ezekiel 5:11</a> Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/7-24.htm">Ezekiel 7:24</a> Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. (KJV WBS)<a href="/ezekiel/14-11.htm">Ezekiel 14:11</a> so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after Me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.' (YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/18-6.htm">Ezekiel 18:6</a> and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/18-11.htm">Ezekiel 18:11</a> and who does not any of those duties, but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/18-15.htm">Ezekiel 18:15</a> who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/20-7.htm">Ezekiel 20:7</a> And I say unto them, Let each cast away the detestable things of his eyes, And with the idols of Egypt be not defiled, I 'am' Jehovah your God. (YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18</a> And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled. (YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/20-26.htm">Ezekiel 20:26</a> and I defiled them by their own gifts, in that they devoted all that opened the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah. (DBY RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/20-30.htm">Ezekiel 20:30</a> Therefore, say unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the way of your fathers are ye defiled? And after their detestable things go a-whoring? (YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/20-43.htm">Ezekiel 20:43</a> And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. (KJV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/22-4.htm">Ezekiel 22:4</a> You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/22-5.htm">Ezekiel 22:5</a> Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou infamous one and full of tumult. (See JPS YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/22-10.htm">Ezekiel 22:10</a> The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee. (YLT)<a href="/ezekiel/22-11.htm">Ezekiel 22:11</a> One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/ezekiel/23-7.htm">Ezekiel 23:7</a> She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/23-13.htm">Ezekiel 23:13</a> I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Ezekiel 23:17</a> The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. 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