Leviticus 11:8
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
נְבֵלָה
nᵉbêlâh
a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol
נָגַע
nâgaʻ
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive,...
טָמֵא
ṭâmêʼ
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
Key Terms in This Verse
נְבֵלָה nᵉbêlâh
a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol
Study H5038 →נָגַע nâgaʻ
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, d...
Study H5060 →טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
Study H2930 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →Cross References
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shal...
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man commo...
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
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