Words the Bible translates as uncleanness
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.
- akatharsiaἀκαθαρσίαfilth: the rot and refuse that makes something physically foul and defiling
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- moral impurity: a defiled condition of life, most often sexual, that is unfit for God's presence
- tumahטֻמְאָהuncleanness: a state of impurity, ritual or moral, that keeps a person or object away from what is holy and must be cleansed.
- niddahנִדָּהimpurity that defiles and must be kept apart, pictured most concretely by a woman during her monthly period
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