Exodus 20:25
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
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Polluted
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Acts 21:28
Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
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16 occurrences in 16 verses.
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חָלַל
châlal · khaw-lal'
13 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: Exodus 20:25Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:4
Open full H2490 profile →טָמֵא
ṭâmêʼ · taw-may'
12 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: 2 Kings 23:16Strong's last: Micah 2:10
Open full H2930 profile →גָּאַל
gâʼal · gaw-al'
7 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
Strong's KJV usage: defile, pollute, stain.
Strong's first: Ezra 2:62Strong's last: Malachi 1:12
Open full H1351 profile →חָנֵף
chânêph · khaw-nafe'
3 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to soil, especially in a moral sense
Strong's KJV usage: corrupt, defile, × greatly, pollute, profane.
Strong's first: Psalms 106:38Strong's last: Jeremiah 3:2
Open full H2610 profile →בּוּס
bûwç · boos
2 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to trample (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: loath, tread (down, under (foot)), be polluted.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 16:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:22
Open full H947 profile →κοινόω
koinóō · koy-no'-o
1 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: Acts 21:28Strong's last: Acts 21:28
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ṭâmêʼ · taw-may'
1 times translated as this KJV form87 total Strong's occurrences
foul in a religious sense
Strong's KJV usage: defiled, infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Amos 7:17Strong's last: Amos 7:17
Open full H2931 profile →עָקֹב
ʻâqôb · aw-kobe'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
(transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked
Strong's KJV usage: crooked, deceitful, polluted.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hosea 6:8Strong's last: Hosea 6:8
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H2930
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
H2930
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
H947
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
H947
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
H2490
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
H2490
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
H2490
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
H2490
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
H2490
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
H2490
Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
H2490
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
H2930
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
H2930
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
H2930
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
H2930
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
H2930
Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
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polluted
POLLU'TED, participle passive Defiled; rendered unclean; tainted with guilt; impaired; profaned.
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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