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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#m1)

2) (verb, old use) To defile something is to make it dirty or spoil it so it cannot be used. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x1)
- He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. (Torah LEV.21.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x3)
- I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? (Writings SNG.5.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x4)
- But thou art man, and not God, in the hand of them that defile thee. (Prophets EZK.28.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x5)
- But they set their abominations in the house whereupon My name is called, to defile it. (Prophets JER.32.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x6)
- The army marched through the defile in single file. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x7)
- The road ran through a narrow defile between two cliffs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x8)
- Do not defile the spring with rubbish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/#x9)

### 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,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1068/)
- [The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1083/)
- [And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.531/)
- [And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.536/)
- [for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.538/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «defile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.