To make something unclean or dirty, especially in a moral or spiritual way.
About Defile
To make ethically or ritually unclean. See Cleanness and Uncleanness, Regulations Concerning.
Key References
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
All Scripture References (9)
Ezra (1)
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
Nehemiah (1)
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
Isaiah (2)
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
Lamentations (1)
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
Daniel (1)
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
Zephaniah (1)
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
Malachi (2)
By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’