NASB Lexicon
KJV Lexicon Neither shall he go inbow' (bo) to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) to any dead muwth (mooth) causatively, to kill body nephesh (neh'-fesh) a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) nor defile tame' (taw-may') to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated) -- defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, utterly. himself for his father 'ab (awb) father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application) -- chief, (fore-)father(-less), patrimony, principal. Compare names in Abi-. or for his mother 'em (ame) a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively) -- dam, mother, parting. Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother; King James Bible Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; Holman Christian Standard Bible He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother. International Standard Version He is not to come near any dead body—whether the deceased is his father or his mother—so as not to defile himself. NET Bible He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother. GOD'S WORD® Translation He must never go near any dead bodies or become unclean, even for his father or mother. King James 2000 Bible Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; Links Leviticus 21:11Leviticus 21:11 NIV Leviticus 21:11 NLT Leviticus 21:11 ESV Leviticus 21:11 NASB Leviticus 21:11 KJV |