Psalm 106:39
Strong's Lexicon
They defiled themselves
וַיִּטְמְא֥וּ (way·yiṭ·mə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2930: 1) to be unclean, become unclean, become impure 1a) (Qal) to be or become unclean 1a1) sexually 1a2) religiously 1a3) ceremonially 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to defile oneself, be defiled 1b1a) sexually 1b1b) by idolatry 1b1c) ceremonially 1b2) to be regarded as unclean 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to defile 1c1a) sexually 1c1b) religiously 1c1c) ceremonially 1c2) to pronounce unclean, declare unclean (ceremonially) 1c3) to profane (God's name) 1d) (Pual) to be defiled 1e) (Hithpael) to be unclean 1f) (Hothpael) to be defiled

by their actions
בְמַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם (ḇə·ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4639: 1) deed, work 1a) deed, thing done, act 1b) work, labour 1c) business, pursuit 1d) undertaking, enterprise 1e) achievement 1f) deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment) 1g) work, thing made 1h) work (of God) 1i) product

and prostituted themselves
וַ֝יִּזְנוּ֗ (way·yiz·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2181: 1) to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be a harlot, act as a harlot, commit fornication 1a2) to commit adultery 1a3) to be a cult prostitute 1a4) to be unfaithful (to God) (fig.) 1b) (Pual) to play the harlot 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to commit adultery 1c2) to force into prostitution 1c3) to commit fornication

by their deeds.
בְּמַֽעַלְלֵיהֶֽם׃ (bə·ma·‘al·lê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4611: 1) deed, practice 1a) practice (usually bad) 1b) deeds 1c) acts

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Young's Literal Translation
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

New American Standard Bible
Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.

King James Bible
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

New Living Translation
They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight.

English Standard Version
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

New American Standard Bible
Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.

King James Bible
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

International Standard Version
Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.

NET Bible
They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

American Standard Version
Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.

English Revised Version
Thus were they defiled with their works, and went a whoring in their doings.

Young's Literal Translation
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
















Cross References
Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 18:24
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Numbers 15:39
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Judges 2:17
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.

Psalm 73:27
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Ezekiel 20:18
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 106:38
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Psalm 106:37
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

Psalm 106:36
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
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