Leviticus 18:27

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which 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

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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 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 should ye sin against the LORD your God.
Deut 23:18 : 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deut 25:16 : 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
1 Kgs 14:24 : 24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast 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 heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kgs 21:2 : 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD 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 neighbour'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 firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Lev 18:22-26
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22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Lev 18:28-30
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28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Deut 18:12
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12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Lev 20:22-23
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22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
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Deut 25:16
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16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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Deut 18:9
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9When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deut 20:18
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17Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
Deut 17:4
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8Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
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Ezek 33:26
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Jer 44:22
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18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
Ezek 23:30
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30I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Ezra 9:1
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Lev 18:3
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Ezek 20:7
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Deut 13:11
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Lev 17:8
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Ezek 16:58
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