defiled
part of speech
verb, past form of defile (defile, defiles, defiled, defiling)
meaning for a pupil
Defiled means made dirty, spoiled or unfit to use, often by something nasty. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Made ritually impure, or dishonored by a wrong act. Interpretation: Tradition treats impurity as a spiritual state that rules who may come near holy things. The law of the suspected wife (sotah) tests whether a woman was defiled. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales, monsters defile food so no one can eat it; in lessons, something clean that has been spoiled
examples
- The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. (Torah GEN.34.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; (Torah NUM.5.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed. (Torah NUM.5.28, JPS 1917) tree →
- And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way. (Prophets EZK.23.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings. (Writings PSA.106.39, JPS 1917) tree →
- How canst thou say: 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim'? (Prophets JER.2.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- The harpies defiled the feast with their dirty claws. tree →
- The river was defiled by factory waste. tree →
- His good name was defiled by the lie. 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 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 —
- And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed.
Trees and pragmatics
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