Strong G167ἀκαθαρσία

impurity

Transliteration
akatharsia
Pronunciation
ak-ath-ar-see'-ah
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G169; impurity (the quality) physically or morally: - uncleanness.

Detailed definition

ἀκαθαρσία, -ας, ἡ
(ἀκάθαρτος), [in LXX chiefly for טֻמְאָה, טָמֵא;]
uncleanness, impurity,
__(a) physical (MM, VGT, see word): Mat.23:27;
__(b) moral: Rom.1:24 6:19, 2Co.12:21, Gal.5:19, Eph.4:19 5:3, Col.3:5, 1Th.2:3 4:7.
† (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G167 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • uncleanness10
  • of1

First verses

  1. Matthew 23:27
    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
  2. Romans 1:24
    Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
  3. Romans 6:19
    I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
  4. 2 Corinthians 12:21
    And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
  5. Galatians 5:19
    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  6. Ephesians 4:19
    Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
  7. Ephesians 5:3
    But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
  8. Colossians 3:5
    Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  9. 1 Thessalonians 2:3
    For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
  10. 1 Thessalonians 4:7
    For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀκᾰθαρ-σία, ἡ,
uncleanness, foulness, of a wound or sore, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 72c(_plural_); ἀγγείων 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 6.31.)]
b dirt, filth, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“BGU” 1117.27 (1st c.BC), etc.)]
2 in moral sense, depravity, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.119.)]
3 ceremonial impurity, [LXX (LXX.Lev.15.3, +others)]