Leviticus 11:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִבְּשָׂרָם֙ לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֔לוּ וּבְנִבְלָתָ֖ם לֹ֣א תִגָּ֑עוּ טְמֵאִ֥ים הֵ֖ם לָכֶֽם

Transliteration

From-bəśārām not tōʾḵēlū and-in-niḇlātām not tiggāʿū ṭəmēʾîm they to-you

Grammar Details

• *mi-bəśārām*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - from their flesh/meat
• *lōʾ tōʾḵēlū*: negative particle + Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall not eat
• *ū-ḇə-niḇlātām*: waw conjunction + preposition + feminine singular noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and in their carcass/dead body
• *lōʾ tiggāʿū*: negative particle + Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall not touch
• *ṭəmēʾîm*: adjective, masculine plural - unclean/impure
• *hēm*: 3rd masculine plural independent pronoun - they
• *lāḵem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - to/for you

Word Meanings

• *bəśārām*: their flesh/their meat/their body
• *niḇlātām*: their carcass/their dead body/their corpse
• *tiggāʿū*: you touch/you contact/you handle

Referenced Verses

• Isa 52:11 : 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah.
• Heb 9:10 : 10 [None being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) {G2532} carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Lev 5:2 : 2 Or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it be hidden from him, and he be unclean, then he shall be guilty.
• Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
• Matt 15:11 : 11 Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.
• Matt 15:20 : 20 these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.
• Mark 7:2 : 2 and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
• Mark 7:15 : 15 there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
• Mark 7:18 : 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] {G1410} cannot defile him;
• Acts 10:10-15 : 10 and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance; 11 and he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, {G1909} {G846} as it were a great sheet, {G2532} let down by {G1210} four corners upon the earth: 12 wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven. 13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat. 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean. 15 And a voice [came] unto him again {G1537} the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.
• Acts 10:28 : 28 and he said unto them, Ye yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to join himself or come unto one of another nation; and [yet] unto me hath God showed that I should not call any man common or unclean:
• Acts 15:29 : 29 that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.
• Rom 14:14-17 : 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, {G3765} thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died. 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of: 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby {G3739} thy brother stumbleth.
• 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But food will not commend us to God: {G3777} neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
• 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
• Eph 5:7 : 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them;
• Eph 5:11 : 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
• Col 2:16 : 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:
• Col 2:21-23 : 21 Handle not, nor taste, nor touch 22 (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.