Bible Dictionary: Incest

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

INCEST

in'-sest.

See CRIMES.

Greek

4202. porneia -- fornication
... fornication. From porneuo; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively,
idolatry -- fornication. see GREEK porneuo. (porneia) -- 8 Occurrences. ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Leviticus 18:6
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
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1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
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Strong's Hebrew

4464. mamzer -- a bastard, child of incest
... 4463, 4464. mamzer. 4465 . a bastard, child of incest. Transliteration:
mamzer Phonetic Spelling: (mam-zare') Short Definition: birth. ...
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8397. tebel -- confusion
... 8396, 8397. tebel. 8398 . confusion. Transliteration: tebel Phonetic Spelling:
(teh'-bel) Short Definition: incest. Word Origin appar. ...
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5079. niddah -- impurity
... From nadad; properly, rejection; by implication, impurity, especially personal
(menstruation) or moral (idolatry, incest) -- X far, filthiness, X flowers ...
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Library

Whether Incest is a Determinate Species of Lust?
... OF THE PARTS OF LUST (TWELVE ARTICLES) Whether incest is a determinate
species of lust? Objection 1: It would seem that incest is ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether incest is a determinate.htm

Whether Marriage is Annulled by the Husband Committing Incest with ...
... OF THE IMPEDIMENTS OF IMPOTENCE, SPELL, FRENZY OR MADNESS, INCEST AND DEFECTIVE
AGE (FIVE ARTICLES) Whether marriage is annulled by the husband committing ...
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Argument: the Charge of Our Entertainments Being Polluted with ...
... Chapter XXXI."Argument: The Charge of Our Entertainments Being Polluted with Incest,
is Entirely Opposed to All Probability, While It is Plain that Gentiles ...
/.../felix/the octavius of minucius felix/chapter xxxi argument the charge of.htm

Of the Impediments of Impotence, Spell, Frenzy or Madness, Incest ...
... OF THE IMPEDIMENTS OF IMPOTENCE, SPELL, FRENZY OR MADNESS, INCEST AND DEFECTIVE
AGE (FIVE ARTICLES). ... (3) Whether frenzy or madness is? (4) Whether incest is? ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/of the impediments of impotence.htm

Other Charges Repelled by the Same Method the Story of the Noble ...
... But you should at once commend the cleverness with which we make our incest look
modest, in that we have devised a spurious night, [699] to avoid polluting the ...
/.../tertullian/ad nationes/chapter xvi name charges repelled.htm

Some Man Will Say, "So Then any Thief Whatever is to be Accounted ...
... that another may not sin more; then, of course, by our committing thefts shall other
men's committing of lewdness be guarded against, and incest by lewdness ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against lying/section 19 some man will.htm

Wickedness of Jupiter.
... And to those who wish to commit incest with sisters, he sets the example in his
intercourse with his sisters Hera and Demeter, and the heavenly Aphrodite, whom ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter xvi wickedness of jupiter.htm

Whether the Unnatural vice is the Greatest Sin among the Species ...
... Now the order of charity requires that a man love more those persons who are united
to him"-and such are those whom he defiles by incest"-than persons who ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the unnatural vice is 2.htm

That I May Refute More Thoroughly These Charges, I Will Show that ...
... prisoners. Then who are more given to the crime of incest than those who
have enjoyed the instruction of Jupiter himself? Ctesias ...
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Of St. Paul, and the Person whom He Urges the Corinthians to ...
... And would the apostle so carelessly have granted indulgence to the atrocious
licentiousness of fornication burdened with incest, as not at least to have ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on modesty/chapter xiii of st paul and.htm

Thesaurus

Incest (1 Occurrence)
... law. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. INCEST. in'-sest. See CRIMES.
Multi-Version Concordance Incest (1 Occurrence). Leviticus ...
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Relationships (1 Occurrence)
... of men named for their mothers (Joab the son of Zeruiah), and a man's relation with
his mother's family was fully recognized in the laws forbidding incest. ...
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Family (438 Occurrences)
... whole. 8. Primitive Monogamic Ideal: The laws against adultery and incest
(Leviticus 20 and the like) may seem barbarously severe. Be ...
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Inchantments (1 Occurrence)

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Incessantly (2 Occurrences)

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Fornication (52 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Adultery. 3. (n.) Incest. 4. (n.) Idolatry. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
FORNICATION. for-ni-ka'-shun. See CRIMES. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Fire (602 Occurrences)
... (3.) Punishment of death by fire was inflicted on such as were guilty of certain
forms of unchastity and incest (Leviticus 20:14; 21:9). The burning of ...
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Enormity (2 Occurrences)
... the translation of zimmah, meaning originally, "thought" or "plot," mostly in a
bad sense, lewdness, wickedness; in Leviticus it is unnatural wickedness-incest...
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Benammi (1 Occurrence)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Son of my kindred; ie, "born of incest", the son of Lot
by his youngest daughter (Genesis 19:38). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Ben-ammi (1 Occurrence)
... Benammi, Ben-ammi. Bench . Easton's Bible Dictionary Son of my kindred; ie,
"born of incest", the son of Lot by his youngest daughter (Genesis 19:38). Int. ...
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Bible Concordance

Incest (1 Occurrence)

Leviticus 20:12 "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
(See NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Incest: Defined and Forbidden

Incest: Herod (Antipas)

Incest: Isaac With Rebekah

Incest: Jacob With Leah and Rachel

Incest: Judah

Incest: Lot With his Daughters