KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Leviticus 15:17–18
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Leviticus 15:17
17And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
17And euery garment and euery skinne whereon is the seede of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen.
Leviticus 15:18
18The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
18The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bath themselues in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen.
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DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 15:17
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
An article of clothing; collectively, clothing or dress.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering; also, to strip off the skin or hide.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
On what.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
copulation
A joining or coupling together; sexual union.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
Cleansed with water; figuratively, purified.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Not clean or pure; filthy, morally defiled, or ceremonially impure, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 15:18
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To recline, rest, remain, or be situated; also, to speak falsely or a falsehood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
copulation
A joining or coupling together; sexual union.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
To wash or immerse the body or part of it in water; to moisten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Not clean or pure; filthy, morally defiled, or ceremonially impure, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
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Open the full verse study18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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Open the full verse study11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Open the full verse study4And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
5And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
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Open the full verse study3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
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Open the full verse study22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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Open the full verse study17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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Open the full verse study3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
10Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
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Open the full verse study15And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
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Open the full verse study4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Open the full verse study5And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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