Words the Bible translates as pollute
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- tameטָמֵאto be or become ceremonially or morally unclean, or to make something or someone unclean
- ga'alגָּאַלto defile by staining: to soil something, most vividly with blood, until it is polluted or unfit for holy use
- ḥanephחָנֵףto defile, or to be defiled: to spoil a land by bloodshed and unfaithfulness until it can no longer hold God's presence, and to turn a person godless
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