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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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.
Read in context →Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
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ṭâmêʼ · taw-may'
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.
Strong's first: Leviticus 11:44Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:25
Open full H2930 profile →koinóō · koy-no'-o
to make (or consider) profane (ceremonially)
Strong's KJV usage: :--call common, defile, pollute, unclean.
Strong's first: Matthew 15:18Strong's last: Mark 7:23
Open full G2840 profile →gâʼal · gaw-al'
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
Strong's KJV usage: defile, pollute, stain.
Strong's first: Daniel 1:8Strong's last: Daniel 1:8
Open full H1351 profile →châlal · khaw-lal'
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.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 7:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 28:7
Open full H2490 profile →miaínō · me-ah'-ee-no
to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--defile.
Strong's first: Jude 1:8Strong's last: Jude 1:8
Open full G3392 profile →phtheírō · fthi'-ro
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.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 3:17Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 3:17
Open full G5351 profile →ṭânaph · taw-naf'
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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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.
Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
And I 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.
But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
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.
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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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