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 The ceremonial uncleannesses of the law are superseded as religious rites; though many of them claim attention as usages of health, decency, and civility.
Not Defiling The Land
Lev_18:24-30; Num_35:33-34.
Those That Are Defiled
Tit_1:15-16.
Those That Defile The Temple Of GOD
1Co_3:16-17.
Those That Defile Themselves
Lev_18:24-29.
What Defiles A Man
Lev_18:20; Mat_15:10-11; Mat_15:15-20; Mar_7:14-23; Jam_3:6.
What Defiles The House Of GOD
Jer_19:12-13; Jer_32:34-36.
Who Defiles The Flesh
Jud_1:7-8.
Who Defiles The Land
Gen_6:11-13; Num_35:30-33; Psa_106:37-39; Isa_24:5; Jer_16:16-21; Eze_36:16-18.
DEFILEMENT.—See Purification.
DEFILEMENT.—See Clean and Unclean.
(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.
See UNCLEANNESS.