[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/pollute.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / pollute

[← P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/P/)

# pollute

«pollute» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to make air, water or land dirty and harmful by adding…** — 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 (pollute, pollutes, polluted, polluting)

### meaning for a pupil

To pollute is to make air, water or land dirty and harmful by adding waste, smoke or chemicals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The prophets use it for what is made impure by wrongdoing, so that it cannot be offered to God. Malachi says the people offered polluted bread on His altar. Interpretation: The tradition reads such pollution as moral and spiritual, caused by sin, and calls for repentance and purity. In the primary lessons: Used in science and geography lessons about the environment: factories, cars and litter pollute; we can reduce pollution by recycling, walking and cycling. Often passive: "The river is polluted."

### examples

- Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d. 570, who designed it to assist his pupils. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x1)
- Will not that land be greatly polluted? (Prophets JER.3.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x2)
- Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. (Prophets MAL.1.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x3)
- Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! (Prophets ZEP.3.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x4)
- Cars pollute the air with fumes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x5)
- Do not pollute the river with rubbish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x6)
- Plastic bags pollute the ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x7)
- The factory was fined for polluting the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x8)
- Polluted water can make animals ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x9)
- How can we pollute less? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x10)
- Smoke from fires pollutes the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pollute/#x11)

### note

Noun: pollution; person or thing: polluter; adjective: polluted. Double l, one t. The opposite idea: clean up.

### In the corpora

- [Will not that land be greatly polluted?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.69/)
- [Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.8/)
- [They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.135/)
- [Burning coal and oil also pollutes the air with soot and gases that cause millions of early deaths each year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/15/)
- [Whether rich countries that polluted more should pay to help poorer countries is a disputed question.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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