Leviticus 11:44
For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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Defile
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Jude 1:8
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
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11 occurrences in 11 verses.
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טָמֵא
ṭâmêʼ · taw-may'
25 times translated as this KJV form161 total Strong's occurrences
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
Strong's KJV usage: defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, × utterly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 11:44Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:25
Open full H2930 profile →κοινόω
koinóō · koy-no'-o
6 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to make (or consider) profane (ceremonially)
Strong's KJV usage: :--call common, defile, pollute, unclean.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 15:18Strong's last: Mark 7:23
Open full G2840 profile →גָּאַל
gâʼal · gaw-al'
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
Strong's KJV usage: defile, pollute, stain.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 1:8Strong's last: Daniel 1:8
Open full H1351 profile →חָלַל
châlal · khaw-lal'
2 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Strong's KJV usage: begin (× men began), defile, × break, defile, × eat (as common things), × first, × gather the grape thereof, × take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 7:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 28:7
Open full H2490 profile →μιαίνω
miaínō · me-ah'-ee-no
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--defile.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jude 1:8Strong's last: Jude 1:8
Open full G3392 profile →φθείρω
phtheírō · fthi'-ro
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (generally) to ruin (especially figuratively, by moral influences, to deprave)
Strong's KJV usage: :--corrupt (self), defile, destroy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 3:17Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 3:17
Open full G5351 profile →טָנַף
ṭânaph · taw-naf'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to soil
Strong's KJV usage: defile.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 5:3Strong's last: Song of Solomon 5:3
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H2490
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
H2930
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
H2930
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
H2930
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
H2930
Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
H2490
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
H2930
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
H2930
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
H2930
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
H2930
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
H2930
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
English meaning and historical usage.
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defile
DEFILE, verb transitive
1. To make unclean; to render foul or dirty; in a general sense.
2. To make impure; to render turbid; as, the water or liquor is defiled.
3. To soil or sully; to tarnish; as reputation, etc.
He is among the greatest prelates of the age, however his character may be defiled by dirty hands.
They shall defile thy brightness. Ezekiel 28:7.
4. To pollute; to make ceremonially unclean.
That which dieth of itself, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith. Leviticus 22:8.
5. To corrupt chastity; to debauch; to violate; to tarnish the purity of character by lewdness.
Schechem defiled Dinah. Genesis 34:2.
6. To taint, in a moral sense; to corrupt; to vitiate; to render impure with sin.
DEFILE not yourselves with the idols of Egypt. Ezekiel 20:7.
He hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Numbers 19:20.
DEFILE, verb intransitive [Latin A thread.] To march off in a line, or file by file; to file off.
DEFILE, noun A narrow passage or way, in which troops may march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long narrow pass, as between hills, etc.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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