chanef · pollute, defile

What it means

chanef (חָנֵף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pollute, defile”.

Pollute, profane: stain something, above all in a moral sense.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To stain the land with blood or idols.
2. To live without God, or lead others so.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• be utterly defiled ×2
• Let her be defiled ×1
• are godless ×1
• has been polluted ×1
• he will corrupt ×1
• pollute ×1
• pollutes ×1
• she defiled ×1
• was polluted ×1
• you defiled ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×5
• Daniel×1
• Micah×1

• Numbers 35:33

  And you shall not pollute the land in which you are, for the blood pollutes the land; and for the land no expiation can be made for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

• Psalms 106:38

  And they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

• Isaiah 24:5

  And the earth has been polluted under its inhabitants; for they have overstepped the instructions, they have changed the statute, they have broken the eternal covenant.

• Jeremiah 3:1

  Saying, “Look, if a man sends away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, will he return to her again? Would not that land be utterly defiled? But you have prostituted yourself with many companions; and would you return to me? declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 3:2

  Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not been lain with? By the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the wilderness, and you defiled the land with your prostitutions and with your evil.

• Jeremiah 3:9

  And it happened that through the lightness of her prostitution she defiled the land, and she committed adultery with stone and with wood.

• Jeremiah 23:11

  “For both prophet and priest are godless; even in my house I have found their evil, declares YHWH.

• Daniel 11:32

  And those who act wickedly against the covenant he will corrupt with flatteries; but the people who know their Elohim will stand firm and act.

• Micah 4:11

  And now many nations have gathered against you, who say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze on Zion.”

And 2 more times.