Leviticus 11:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean 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 you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.
• Heb 9:10 : 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Lev 5:2 : 2 "'Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
• Hos 9:3 : 3 They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
• Matt 15:11 : 11 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
• Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
• Mark 7:2 : 2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.
• Mark 7:15 : 15 There is nothing from outside of 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 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,
• Acts 10:10-15 : 10 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, 12 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky. 13 A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!" 14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." 15 A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
• Acts 10:28 : 28 He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
• Rom 14:14-17 : 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. 16 Then don't let your good be slandered, 17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
• 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
• 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, And be separate,' says the Lord, 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Eph 5:7 : 7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.
• Eph 5:11 : 11 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 eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
• Col 2:21-23 : 21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.