Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Defile’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Defile’ occurs 93 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 37:27 It is better that he be sold to the Ishmaelites, and then our hands will not be defiled. For he is our brother and our flesh.” His brothers agreed to his words.Genesis 37:27
Genesis 49:4 You are being poured out like water, may you not increase. For you climbed onto your father’s bed, and you defiled his resting place.Genesis 49:4
Number of the word / term Defile in Genesis: 2
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 20:25 And if you make an altar of stone for me, you shall not build it from cut stones; for if you lift up a tool over it, it will be defiled.Exodus 20:25
Number of the word / term Defile in Exodus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 5:3 And if he will have touched anything from the uncleanness of man, according to every kind of impurity by which he may be defiled, and having forgotten it, afterwards realizes it, he shall be guilty of committing a transgression.Leviticus 5:3
Leviticus 7:21 And whoever will have touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or of anything which is able to defile, and who will have eaten from this kind of flesh, shall be cut off from his people.Leviticus 7:21
Leviticus 11:24 And whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be defiled, and he shall be unclean until evening.Leviticus 11:24
Leviticus 11:32 And anything upon which something from their carcasses will have fallen shall be defiled, whether it is a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins, or haircloths, or anything by which work is done. These shall be dipped in water and shall be defiled until evening, but then afterwards these shall be clean.Leviticus 11:32
Leviticus 11:33 But an earthen vessel, into which something from these will fall, shall be defiled; and therefore it is to be broken.Leviticus 11:33
Leviticus 11:36 Yet truly, fountains and cisterns, and all reservoirs of water shall be clean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be defiled.Leviticus 11:36
Leviticus 11:37 If it falls upon seed grain, it shall not defile it.Leviticus 11:37
Leviticus 11:38 But if anyone has poured water upon the seed grain, and afterwards it was touched by the carcasses, it shall be immediately defiled.Leviticus 11:38
Leviticus 18:20 You shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you be defiled by the mingling of seed.Leviticus 18:20
Leviticus 18:23 You shall not commit sexual acts with any animal, nor shall you be defiled by it. A woman shall not lie down with a beast, nor commit sexual acts with it; for this is wickedness.Leviticus 18:23
Leviticus 21:14 But a widow, or one who has been repudiated or defiled, or also a mistress, he shall not accept, but only a maiden from among his own people.Leviticus 21:14
Leviticus 22:9 Let them observe my precepts, so that they may not fall under sin, and die in the Sanctuary, when they will have defiled it. I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.Leviticus 22:9
Number of the word / term Defile in Leviticus: 12
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 5:20 But if you have turned away from your husband, and also have been defiled, and have lain together with another man,Numbers 5:20
Numbers 5:27 And when she drinks it, if she has been defiled, and, having despised her husband, is guilty of adultery, the curse shall pass through her, and as her belly swells up, her thigh shall decay, and the woman shall become a curse and an example to all the people.Numbers 5:27
Numbers 5:28 But if she has not been defiled, she shall be unharmed and she shall bear children.Numbers 5:28
Number of the word / term Defile in Numbers: 3
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 21:23 his corpse shall not remain on the tree. Instead, he shall be buried on the same day. For he who hangs from a tree has been cursed by God, and you shall not defile your land, which the Lord your God will give to you as a possession.”Deuteronomy 21:23
Deuteronomy 23:10 If there is a man among you who has been defiled by a dream in the night, he shall depart from the camp.Deuteronomy 23:10
Number of the word / term Defile in Deuteronomy: 2
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 7:12 Israel is not able to stand before his enemies, and he will flee from them. For he has been defiled by what is anathema. I will be no longer be with you, until you destroy him who is guilty of this wickedness.Joshua 7:12
Number of the word / term Defile in Joshua: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 21:5 And David responded to the priest, and said to him: “Indeed, as concerns being with women, we have abstained since yesterday and the day before, when we departed, and so the vessels of the young men have been holy. And although, this journey has been defiled, it will also be sanctified today as concerns the vessels.”1 Samuel 21:5
Number of the word / term Defile in 1 Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 23:8 And he gathered together all the priests from the cities of Judah. And he defiled the high places, where the priests were sacrificing, from Geba as far as Beersheba. And he tore down the altars of the gates at the entrance to the gate of Joshua, the leader of the city, which was to the left of the gate of the city.2 Kings 23:8
2 Kings 23:10 Also, he defiled Topheth, which is in the steep valley of the son of Hinnom, so that no one would consecrate his son or his daughter, through fire, to Molech.2 Kings 23:10
2 Kings 23:13 Also, the high places which were in Jerusalem, to the right side of the Mount of Offense, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built to Ashtoreth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh, the offense of Moab, and to Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.2 Kings 23:13
2 Kings 23:16 And in that place Josiah, turning, saw the sepulchers which were on the mount. And he sent and took the bones from the sepulchers. And he burned them upon the altar, and he defiled it in accord with the word of the Lord, which was spoken by the man of God, who had predicted these events.2 Kings 23:16
Number of the word / term Defile in 2 Kings: 4
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 13:29 O Lord, my God, remember against those who defile the priesthood and the law of the priests and the Levites!Nehemiah 13:29
Number of the word / term Defile in Nehemiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 30:22 And you will defile the plates of your silver graven images and the vestment of your gold molten idols. And you will throw these things away like the uncleanness of a menstruating woman. You will say to it, “Go away!”Isaiah 30:22
Isaiah 35:8 And there shall be a path and a road in that place. And it will be called the Holy Way. The defiled will not pass through it. For this will be an upright path for you, so much so that the foolish will not wander along it.Isaiah 35:8
Isaiah 43:28 And so, I have defiled the holy leaders. I have handed over Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to calumny.Isaiah 43:28
Number of the word / term Defile in Isaiah: 3
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 2:7 And I led you into the land of Carmel, so that you would eat from its fruit and from its excellence. And having entered it, you defiled my land, and you turned my inheritance into an abomination.Jeremiah 2:7
Jeremiah 2:16 Likewise, the sons of Memphis and of Tahpanhes have defiled you, even to the top of the head.Jeremiah 2:16
Jeremiah 3:9 And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.Jeremiah 3:9
Jeremiah 7:30 For the sons of Judah have done evil in my eyes, says the Lord. They have stationed their abominations in the house where my name is invoked, so that they may defile it.Jeremiah 7:30
Jeremiah 13:22 But if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?’ it is because of the greatness of your iniquity that your shame has been uncovered and the soles of your feet have been defiled.Jeremiah 13:22
Jeremiah 16:18 But first, I will repay their double iniquities and their sins. For they have defiled my land with the dead bodies of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”Jeremiah 16:18
Jeremiah 32:34 And they have placed their idols in the house where my name is invoked, so that they defiled it.Jeremiah 32:34
Number of the word / term Defile in Jeremiah: 7
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Lamentations
Lamentations 4:14 NUN. They have wandered in the streets like the blind; they have been defiled with blood. And when they were not able, they held their garments.Lamentations 4:14
Number of the word / term Defile in Lamentations: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 7:21 And I will give it into the hands of foreigners as a spoil, and to the impious of the earth as a prey, and they will defile it.Ezekiel 7:21
Ezekiel 7:22 And I will avert my face from them, and they will violate my place of mystery. And untamed persons will enter into it, and they will defile it.Ezekiel 7:22
Ezekiel 20:7 And I said to them: ‘Let each one cast away the offenses of his eyes, and do not choose to defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’Ezekiel 20:7
Ezekiel 20:18 Then I said to their sons in the wilderness: ‘Do not choose to advance by the precepts of your fathers, nor should you observe their judgments. And do not be defiled by their idols.Ezekiel 20:18
Ezekiel 20:26 And I defiled them by their own gifts, when they offered everything that opened the womb, because of their offenses. And they shall know that I am the Lord.Ezekiel 20:26
Ezekiel 20:30 Because of this, say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Certainly, you are defiled by the way of your fathers, and you have fornicated after their stumbling blocks.Ezekiel 20:30
Ezekiel 20:31 And you are being defiled by all of your idols, even to this day, by the oblation of your gifts, when you lead your sons through the fire. And should I respond to you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not answer you.Ezekiel 20:31
Ezekiel 20:39 And as for you, house of Israel: thus says the Lord God: Walk, each one of you, after your idols and serve them. But if in this also you will not listen to me, and you continue to defile my holy name with your gifts and with your idols,Ezekiel 20:39
Ezekiel 20:43 And there you shall remember your ways and all your wickedness, by which you have been defiled. And you will be displeased with yourselves in your own sight, over all your evil deeds which you did.Ezekiel 20:43
Ezekiel 22:3 And you shall reveal to her all her abominations. And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: This is the city which sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and which has made idols against herself, so that she may be defiled.Ezekiel 22:3
Ezekiel 22:4 You have offended by your blood, which you shed from yourself. And you have been defiled by your idols which you yourself made. And you have caused your days to approach, and you have brought on the time of your years. Because of this, I have made you a disgrace to the Gentiles, and a derision to all the lands.Ezekiel 22:4
Ezekiel 22:8 You have spurned my sanctuaries, and you have defiled my Sabbaths.Ezekiel 22:8
Ezekiel 22:11 And each one has committed abomination with the wife of his neighbor. And the father-in-law has heinously defiled his daughter-in-law. The brother has oppressed his sister, the daughter of his father, within you.Ezekiel 22:11
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have despised my law, and they have defiled my sanctuaries. They have held no distinction between holy and profane. And they have not understood the difference between defiled and clean. And they have averted their eyes from my Sabbaths. And I was profaned in their midst.Ezekiel 22:26
Ezekiel 23:7 And she distributed her fornications to those chosen men, all of them sons of the Assyrians. And she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all those whom she madly desired.Ezekiel 23:7
Ezekiel 23:13 And I saw that she had been defiled, and that they both took the same path.Ezekiel 23:13
Ezekiel 23:17 And when the sons of Babylon had gone to her, to the bed of breasts, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was gorged by them.Ezekiel 23:17
Ezekiel 23:30 They have done these things to you, because you have fornicated after the Gentiles, among whom you were defiled by their idols.Ezekiel 23:30
Ezekiel 23:38 But they have done even this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and they have profaned my Sabbaths.Ezekiel 23:38
Ezekiel 23:39 And when they immolated their children to their idols, they also entered my sanctuary on the same day, so that they defiled it. They have done these things, even in the midst of my house.Ezekiel 23:39
Ezekiel 24:21 ‘Speak to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will defile my sanctuary, the pride of your realm, and the desire of your eyes, and the dread of your soul. Your sons and your daughters, whom you have forsaken, will fall by the sword.’Ezekiel 24:21
Ezekiel 28:7 for this reason, behold, I will lead over you foreigners, the most robust among the Gentiles. And they will bare their swords over the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your beauty.Ezekiel 28:7
Ezekiel 28:18 You have defiled your sanctuaries, by the multitude of your iniquities and by the iniquity of your business dealings. Therefore, I will produce a fire from your midst, which will consume you, and I will make you into ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all who are watching you.Ezekiel 28:18
Ezekiel 33:26 You stood by your swords, you committed abominations, and each one has defiled his neighbor’s wife. And will you possess the land as an inheritance?Ezekiel 33:26
Ezekiel 36:17 “Son of man, the house of Israel lived on their own soil, and they defiled it with their ways and with their intentions. Their way, in my sight, became like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.Ezekiel 36:17
Ezekiel 36:18 And so I poured out my indignation upon them, because of the blood which they shed upon the land, and because they defiled it with their idols.Ezekiel 36:18
Ezekiel 36:20 And when they walked among the Gentiles, to whom they had entered, they defiled my holy name, though it was being said about them: ‘This is the people of the Lord,’ and ‘They went forth from his land.’Ezekiel 36:20
Ezekiel 36:21 But I have spared my holy name, which the house of Israel has defiled among the Gentiles, to whom they entered.Ezekiel 36:21
Ezekiel 36:22 For this reason, you shall say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will act, not for your sake, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have defiled among the Gentiles, to whom you entered.Ezekiel 36:22
Ezekiel 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was defiled among the Gentiles, which you have defiled in their midst. So may the Gentiles know that I am the Lord, says the Lord of hosts, when I will have been sanctified in you, before their eyes.Ezekiel 36:23
Ezekiel 37:23 And they will no longer be defiled by their idols, and by their abominations, and by all their iniquities. And I will save them, out of all the settlements in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. And they will be my people, and I will be their God.Ezekiel 37:23
Ezekiel 39:7 And I will make known my holy name in the midst of my people, Israel, and my holy name will no longer be defiled. And the Gentiles shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.Ezekiel 39:7
Ezekiel 43:7 said to me: “Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the steps of my feet, is where I live: in the midst of the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel, they and their kings, shall no longer defile my holy name by their fornications, and by the ruinous ways of their kings, and by exalted places.Ezekiel 43:7
Ezekiel 43:8 They have fabricated their threshold beside my threshold, and their doorposts beside my doorposts. And there was a wall between me and them. And they defiled my holy name by the abominations which they committed. Because of this, I consumed them in my wrath.Ezekiel 43:8
Ezekiel 44:7 For you bring in foreign sons, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, so that they may be in my sanctuary and may defile my house. And you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood, yet you have broken my covenant by all your wicked deeds.Ezekiel 44:7
Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and defiled, and they shall distinguish for them between clean and unclean.Ezekiel 44:23
Ezekiel 44:25 And they shall not enter to a dead person, lest they be defiled, except to father or mother, or son or daughter, or brother, or to a sister who does not have another man. By these, they may become unclean.Ezekiel 44:25
Number of the word / term Defile in Ezekiel: 37
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Hosea
Hosea 9:4 They will not offer a libation of wine to the Lord, and they will not please him. Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners. All those who eat it will be defiled. For their bread is of their soul; it will not enter into the house of the Lord.Hosea 9:4
Number of the word / term Defile in Hosea: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Zechariah
Zechariah 13:1 In that day, there will be a fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for the washing of the transgressor and of the defiled woman.Zechariah 13:1
Number of the word / term Defile in Zechariah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 15:11 A man is not defiled by what enters into the mouth, but by what proceeds from the mouth. This is what defiles a man.”Matthew 15:11
Matthew 15:18 But what proceeds from the mouth, goes forth from the heart, and those are the things that defile a man.Matthew 15:18
Matthew 15:20 These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man.”Matthew 15:20
Number of the word / term Defile in Matthew: 3
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Mark
Mark 7:15 There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which procede from a man, these are what pollute a man.Mark 7:15
Number of the word / term Defile in Mark: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book John
John 18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium. Now it was morning, and so they did not enter into the praetorium, so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.John 18:28
Number of the word / term Defile in John: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book 1 Timothy
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law was not set in place for the just, but for the unjust and the insubordinate, for the impious and sinners, for the wicked and the defiled, for those who commit patricide, matricide, or homicide,1 Timothy 1:9
Number of the word / term Defile in 1 Timothy: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Titus
Titus 1:15 All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted.Titus 1:15
Number of the word / term Defile in Titus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Hebrews
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the ashes of a calf, when these are sprinkled, sanctify those who have been defiled, in order to cleanse the flesh,Hebrews 9:13
Hebrews 12:15 Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,Hebrews 12:15
Number of the word / term Defile in Hebrews: 2
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book James
James 3:6 And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.James 3:6
Number of the word / term Defile in James: 1
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Jude
Jude 1:8 Similarly also, these ones certainly defile the flesh, and they despise proper authority, and they blaspheme against majesty.Jude 1:8
Jude 1:12 These ones are defiled within their banquets, enjoying themselves and feeding themselves without fear; waterless clouds, which are tossed about by winds; autumn trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;Jude 1:12
Jude 1:23 Yet truly, save them, seizing them from the fire. And have mercy on others: in fear, hating even that which is of the flesh, the defiled garment.Jude 1:23
Number of the word / term Defile in Jude: 3
Bible passages with ‘Defile’ in the book Revelation
Revelation 3:4 But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And these shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.Revelation 3:4
Revelation 14:4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are Virgins. These follow the Lamb wherever he will go. These were redeemed from men as the first-fruits for God and for the Lamb.Revelation 14:4
Revelation 21:27 There shall not enter into it anything defiled, nor anything causing an abomination, nor anything false, but only those who have been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb.Revelation 21:27
Number of the word / term ‘Defile’ in Revelation: 3
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 93
