Leviticus 11:43
King James Version
11 Jun 2026
“Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.”
נֶפֶשׁ
Life, soul, living being. Nephesh. The animating breath God places in every living creature. In animals it is the life force. In humanity it is the seat of emotion, will and identity. Every nephesh belongs to God — from the creatures in the sea to the deepest cry of the human heart.
טָמֵא
you must make yourselves unclean
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טָמֵא
you must make yourselves unclean
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
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שָׁקַץ
you make detestable
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שָׁקַץ
to be filthy, i.e. (intensively) to loathe, pollute
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