The brother of one's father or mother.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.
2. A pawnbroker.
2. In the Jewish law, ceremonially impure; not cleansed by ritual practices. Numbers 19:7 . Leviticus 11:4 . Romans 14:14 .
3. Foul with sin. Matthew 10:1 .
4. That holy place where no unclean thing shall enter.
5. Not in covenant with God. 1 Corinthians 7:14 .
7. Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate and unclean affections.
8. No unclean person - hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Ephesians 5:5 .
2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.
3. Morally impure.
That cannot be cleansed.
unclen'liness. Want of cleanliness; filthiness.
1. unclen'ly.
4. It is a pity that these harmonious writers have indulged any thing uncleanly or impure to defile their paper.
1. Foulness; dirtiness; filthiness.
2. Be not troublesome to thyself or to others by uncleanness
3. Want of ritual or ceremonial purity. Leviticus 15:3 .
4. Moral impurity; defilement by sin; sinfulness.
5. I will save you from all your uncleanness Ezekiel 36:17 .
Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.
To open the closed hand; as, to unclench the fist.
Opened; unclosed.
The office or position of an uncle.
Consanguinity Roget’s Thesaurus §11
N. consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice &c. removed, near relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation
V. be related to, claim relationship with, with
Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german
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Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
Or if he touches human uncleanness—anything by which one becomes unclean—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty.
And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.
Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry the bodies of your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
