What does "Uncleanness" mean in the Bible?

What does the Bible say about Uncleanness?

The distinctive idea attached to ceremonial uncleanness among the Hebrews was that it cut a person off for the time from social privileges, and left his citizenship among God’s people for the while in abeyance. There is an intense reality in the fact of the divine law taking hold of a man by the ordinary infirmities of flesh, and setting its stamp, as it were, in the lowest clay of which he is moulded. The sacredness attached to the human body is parallel to that which invested the ark of the covenant itself. It is as though Jehovah thereby would teach men that the “very hairs of their head were all numbered” before him and that “in his book were all their members written.” Thus was inculcated so to speak a bodily holiness. Nor were the Israelites to be only “separated from other people,” but they were to be “holy to God,” (Leviticus 20:24,26) “a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.” The importance to physical well-being of the injunctions which required frequent ablution, under whatever special pretexts, can be but feebly appreciated in our cooler and damper climate. Uncleanness, as referred to men, may be arranged in three degrees:

What is the Hebrew word for Uncleanness?

Where does Uncleanness appear in the Bible?

Uncleanness is referenced in 17 verses across 6 books. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.

• 2 Samuel 11:4
• Ezekiel 22:15
• Ezekiel 24:13
• Ezekiel 36:17
• Ezekiel 36:29
• Ezekiel 39:24
• Ezra 6:21
• Lamentations 1:9
• Leviticus 5:3
• Leviticus 7:21
• Leviticus 14:19
• Leviticus 15:3
• Leviticus 15:31
• Leviticus 16:19
• Leviticus 22:3
• Leviticus 22:5
• Numbers 19:13

What else appears in these passages?

These turn up in the same passages as Uncleanness.