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Strong's #2610: chaneph (pronounced khaw-nafe')

a primitive root; to soil, especially in a moral sense:--corrupt, defile, X greatly, pollute, profane.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chânêph

1) to be profaned, be defiled, be polluted, be corrupt

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be polluted

1a2) to be profane, be godless

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to pollute

1b2) to make profane, make godless, cause to be defiled

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

Numbers 35:33: "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood"
Numbers 35:33: "are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot"
Psalms 106:38: "unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood."
Isaiah 24:5: "The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed"
Jeremiah 3:1: "her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot"
Jeremiah 3:1: "her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot"
Jeremiah 3:2: "hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness."
Jeremiah 3:9: "And it came to pass of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery"
Jeremiah 23:11: "prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness,"
Daniel 11:32: "And such as do wickedly against shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong,"
Micah 4:11: "are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion."









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