unclean
un·clean (un klēn′)
- uncleaned
unclean
modif.
Antonyms
Preposition: by
- body: But " If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean.
- eat: From now on take no wine or strong drink; eat nothing unclean.
- declare: If it looks deeper than the rest of the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest must declare the person unclean.
Modifies a noun
- lip: Isaiah laments the fact that he is a man of unclean lips.
- spirit: They say he has an " unclean spirit " which hitherto has meant an opponent.
- animal: There would not have been unclean animals had Adam not brought the earth under the curse in the first place.
- meat: On the plus side however they may eat unclean meat ( Dt.
- thing: The unclean things in the world are merely the product of the overflow of the sewer of the human being.
- bird: Abram had kept watch by the Victims, driving away the unclean birds which would have come down upon them.
Modifying Another Word
- ritually: Being ritually unclean meant that she would have been unable to take part in public worship.
- ceremonially: Under the OT Law a woman was declared ceremonially unclean during menstruation.
- spiritually: So unclean food could basically make someone spiritually unclean.
- often: The people of the Middle Ages enjoyed to drink, and as water was often unclean, it was a necessity.
- very: The Bible teaches that we are unclean - very unclean.
Used with adjective complement
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, likethe wind, havetaken us away.
Then said I,Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the L of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my 102 mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard thevoiceoftheLord,saying,Whomshall Isend, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools shall not err therein.
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