Leviticus 18:20

Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data

"Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her."

Word-by-Word Analysis

עוֹד

ʻôwd

H5750

properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more

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thou shalt not

שָׁכַב

shâkab

H7901

to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)

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זֶרַע

zeraʻ

H2233

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

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with thy

רֵעַ

rêaʻ

H7453

an associate (more or less close)

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אִשָּׁה

ʼishshâh

H802

a woman

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to

טָמֵא

ṭâmêʼ

H2930

to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)

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נֶפֶשׁ

nephesh

H5315

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...

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with her

Key Terms in This Verse

carnally H2233

זֶרַע zeraʻ

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

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defile H2930

טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ

to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)

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neighbour H7453

רֵעַ rêaʻ

an associate (more or less close)

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lie H7901

שָׁכַב shâkab

to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)

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Moreover H5750

עוֹד ʻôwd

properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more

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thyself H5315

נֶפֶשׁ nephesh

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

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wife H802

אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh

a woman

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Cross References

Exodus 20:14 cross-reference

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Hebrews 13:4 cross-reference

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Leviticus 20:10 cross-reference

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

1 Corinthians 6:9 cross-reference

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Proverbs 6:25 cross-reference

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Deuteronomy 5:18 cross-reference

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Malachi 3:5 cross-reference

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his...

Deuteronomy 22:25 cross-reference

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

Deuteronomy 22:22 cross-reference

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Romans 2:22 cross-reference

Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

Galatians 5:19 cross-reference

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

2 Samuel 11:27 cross-reference

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

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