Leviticus 18:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֚י אֶת־כָּל־הַתּוֹעֵבֹ֣ת הָאֵ֔ל עָשׂ֥וּ אַנְשֵֽׁי־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לִפְנֵיכֶ֑ם וַתִּטְמָ֖א הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

For kî ʾet-kol-hattôʿēbōt hāʾēl ʿāśû ʾanšê-hāʾārets ʾăšer before you lipnêkem and wattiṭmāʾ hāʾārets

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of
• *hattôʿēbōt*: definite article + noun, feminine plural - the abominations
• *hāʾēl*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun, common plural - these
• *ʿāśû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they did
• *ʾanšê*: noun, masculine plural construct - men of
• *hāʾārets*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the land
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - who/which
• *lipnêkem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine plural suffix - before you
• *wattiṭmāʾ*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and was defiled

Word Meanings

• *tôʿēbōt*: abominations/detestable things/abhorrent practices
• *ʿāśû*: they did/they practiced/they performed
• *ʾanšê*: men of/people of/inhabitants of
• *wattiṭmāʾ*: and was defiled/and became unclean/and was polluted

Referenced Verses

• Lev 18:24 : 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;
• Deut 20:18 : 18 that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God.
• Deut 23:18 : 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
• Deut 25:16 : 16 For all that do such things, [even] all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
• Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
• 1 Kgs 14:24 : 24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 16:3 : 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 21:2 : 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.
• 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
• Ezek 16:50 : 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
• Ezek 22:11 : 11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
• Hos 9:10 : 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.