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11he that touches pitch shall be defiled — Cf. APOCRYPHA Ecclesiasticus xiii. 1 (AV) He that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled therewith. 1303 R. BRUNNE Handlyng Synne (EETS) 1. 6578 Who so handlyth pycche wellyng hote, He shalhaue fylthe therof sumdeyl [in some degree]. 1578 LYLY Euphues… …
12becoming defiled — becoming desecrated, being contaminated, being tainted …
13fielded — defiled …
14Timaeus — Defiled, the father of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46) …
15afiled — defiled. Alys. 1064 …
16desecrated grave — defiled or damaged a burial place …
17PURITY AND IMPURITY, RITUAL — (Heb. וְטָהֳרָה טֻמְאָה, tumah ve toharah), a symbolic system according to which a pure person or object is qualified for contact with the Temple and related sancta (holy objects and spaces) while an impure person or object is disqualified from… …
18Naso (parsha) — Naso or Nasso (נָשֹׂא Hebrew for lift up, the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 35th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the book of Numbers. It constitutes …
19Numbers 5 — 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the… …
20purification rite — ▪ anthropology Introduction any of the ceremonial acts or customs employed in an attempt to reestablish lost purity or to create a higher degree of purity in relation to the sacred (the transcendental realm) or the social and cultural realm …
