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POLLU'TE, L. polluo polluceo and possideo.
1. To defile to make foul or unclean in a general sense. But appropriately, among the Jews, to make unclean or impure, in a legal or ceremonial sense, so as to disqualify a person for sacred services, or to render things unfit for sacred uses. Numbers 18; Exodus 20; 2 Kings 23 . 2 Chronicles 36
2. To taint with guilt.
Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols. Ezekiel 20
3. To profane to use for carnal or idolatrous purposes.
My sabbaths they greatly polluted. Ezekiel 20
4. To corrupt or impair by mixture of moral or physical.
Envy you my praise, and would destroy
With grief my pleasures, and pollute my joy?
5. To violate by illegal sexual commerce.
POLLU'TE, a. Polluted defiled.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Pollute'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/pollute.html.
Entry for 'Pollute'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/pollute.html.
