defile

«defile» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a narrow path or valley between high rocks or hills… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (defile, defiles, defiled, defiling); noun (defile, defiles)

meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) A defile is a narrow path or valley between high rocks or hills, where only a few can pass at a time. tree →

2) (verb, old use) To defile something is to make it dirty or spoil it so it cannot be used. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To make a person ritually impure, or to make something holy unclean through wrongdoing or contact with the dead. Interpretation: Jewish law cares about states of purity and impurity. A priest was warned to avoid defilement by the dead except for close relatives. In the primary lessons: in old tales an army or traveller must go through a defile in the mountains; in lessons, a narrow pass; the verb is an old word for making dirty

examples

• And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. (Torah LEV.18.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. (Torah LEV.21.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; (Torah LEV.21.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? (Writings SNG.5.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• But thou art man, and not God, in the hand of them that defile thee. (Prophets EZK.28.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• But they set their abominations in the house whereupon My name is called, to defile it. (Prophets JER.32.34, JPS 1917) tree →
• The army marched through the defile in single file. tree →
• The road ran through a narrow defile between two cliffs. tree →
• Do not defile the spring with rubbish. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
• The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
• And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
• And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
• for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled —

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «defile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.