# H2610 חָנֵף

חָנֵף (chânêph), Strong’s H2610: to soil, especially in a moral sense KJV: corrupt, defile, [idiom] greatly, pollute, profane.. Occurs 11 times.

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*chânêph* — to soil, especially in a moral sense

KJV: corrupt, defile, [idiom] greatly, pollute, profane.

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָנֵף] vb. be polluted, profane
- Qal
- 1 be polluted
- 2 of prophet and priest = profane, godless
- Hiph.
- 1 pollute
- 2 make profane, godless

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 35:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=33) — “‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land…
- [Isaiah 24:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=5) — The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and…
- [Jeremiah 3:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/3?v=1) — “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her…
- [Jeremiah 3:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/3?v=2) — “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by…
- [Jeremiah 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/3?v=9) — Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.
- [Jeremiah 23:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/23?v=11) — for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD.
- [Micah 4:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/micah/4?v=11) — Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
- [Psalms 106:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/106?v=38) — They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of…
- [Daniel 11:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/11?v=32) — He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be…