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# defiled

«defiled» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **made dirty, spoiled or unfit to use, often by something…** — 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, 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#x1)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#x3)
- And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way. (Prophets EZK.23.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#x4)
- Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings. (Writings PSA.106.39, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#x5)
- How canst thou say: 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim'? (Prophets JER.2.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#x6)
- The harpies defiled the feast with their dirty claws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#x7)
- The river was defiled by factory waste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#x8)
- His good name was defiled by the lie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/defiled/#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 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/)
- [And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.217/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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