Defilement
defilement
(Latin: de, down; Anglo-Saxon: ful, foul)
A term which connotes the condition of uncleanness. It covers a variety of meanings, such as, to render legally unclean by contact with unclean things and by eating forbidden foods; to profane holy beings and objects; to pollute sexually through adultery; to taint with sin; to soil physically as with filth, etc.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
DEFILEMENT
See UNCLEANNESS.
Fuente: Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
Defilement
DEFILEMENT.See Purification.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Defilement
DEFILEMENT.See Clean and Unclean.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Defilement
Laws relating to
Lev 7:18-21; Lev 11:43; Lev 22:2-7
Caused by:
– Leprosy
Lev 13:3; Lev 13:44-46; Lev 14; Lev 22:4-7
– Gonorrhea
Lev 15:1-15; Lev 22:4
– Copulation
Lev 15:17
– Spermatorrhea
Lev 15:16-17
– Childbirth
Lev 12:2-8; Luk 2:22
– Menses
Lev 15:19-33; 2Sa 11:4
– Touching the dead
Num 19:11-22; Num 31:19-20
– Touching carcass of any unclean animal
Lev 11:39-40; Lev 17:15-16; Lev 22:8
– Touching carcass of an unclean thing
Lev 5:2-13; Lev 11:8; Lev 11:24-28; Lev 11:31-38; Lev 14:46-57; Lev 15:5-11; Deu 23:10-11
– Slaying in battle
Num 31:19-20
– Contact with sinners falsely supposed to cause
Joh 18:28
Of priest
Lev 16:26; Lev 16:28; Num 19:7-10; Eze 44:25-26
Egyptian usage, concerning
Gen 43:32 Ablution; Purification; Uncleanness
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Defilement
Under the law, many were those blemishes of person and conduct, which were considered as defilements: some were voluntary, others involuntary; some were inevitable, and the effect of nature itself, others arose from personal transgression. Under the Gospel, defilements are those of the heart, of the mind, the temper, and conduct. The ceremonial uncleannesses of the law are superseded as religious rites; though many of them claim attention as usages of health, decency, and civility.