Leviticus 11:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Of their fsh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are uncan to 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; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
• Heb 9:10 : 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
• Lev 5:2 : 2 Or if a soul touch any uncan thing, whether it be a carcase of an uncan beast, or a carcase of uncan catt, or the carcase of uncan creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be uncan, and guilty.
• Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
• Matt 15:11 : 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
• Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
• Mark 7:2 : 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
• Mark 7:15 : 15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
• Mark 7:18 : 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
• Acts 10:10-15 : 10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 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 any thing that is common or unclean. 15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
• Acts 10:28 : 28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
• Rom 14:14-17 : 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 But if thy bther be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Desty not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of: 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
• Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy bther stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
• 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
• 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the 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 reprove them.
• Col 2:16 : 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
• Col 2:21-23 : 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.