Strong G3393μίασμα
defilement
- Transliteration
- miasma
- Pronunciation
- mee'-as-mah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From G3392 (miasma); (morally) foulness (properly the effect): - pollution.
Detailed definition
μίασμα, -τος, τό
(μιαίνω),
chiefly in trag. and late writers;
[in LXX: Lev.7:8, 18, (פִּגּוּל), Jer.32:34 (שִׁקּוּץ), Eze.33:31 (בֶּצַע), Jdth.9:2, 4 13:16, 1Ma.13:50 *;]
a stain, defilement: pl., 2Pe.2:20.†
(AS)
(μιαίνω),
chiefly in trag. and late writers;
[in LXX: Lev.7:8, 18, (פִּגּוּל), Jer.32:34 (שִׁקּוּץ), Eze.33:31 (בֶּצַע), Jdth.9:2, 4 13:16, 1Ma.13:50 *;]
a stain, defilement: pl., 2Pe.2:20.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3393 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- pollution1
First verses
- 2 Peter 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
μί-ασμα [ῐ], ατος, τό,
(μιαίνω) stain, defilement, especially by murder or other crime, taint of guilt, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 169 (Lyric poetry), 281, etc.; οὐκ ἔστι γῆρας τοῦδε τοῦ μ. [prev. author] “Th.” 682; μ. φεύγων αἵματος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 35; μ. τῶν φυτευσάντων λαβεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1012; οὐ προσῆκον μίασμα εἰς οἴκους εἰσάγεσθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.1.3; μ. τινὸς ἐπεξέρχεσθαι [prev. author] 4.3.6; τὸ μ. εἰς αὑτὸν δέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 871b: in _plural_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1420, “Ch.” 1017; αἱμάτων μιάσμασι χρανθεῖσα γαῖα [prev. author] “Supp.” 265, etc.)]
II that which defiles, pollution, of persons, χώρας μ. καὶ θεῶν ἐγχωρίων [Refs ([prev. author] “Ag.” 1645)]; πατροκτόνον μ. καὶ θεῶν στύγος, of Clytaemnestra, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ch.” 1028: μ. χώρας ἐλαύνειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 97; ὡς μ. τοῦδ᾽ ἡμὶν ὄντος [prev. work] 241)]: in Prose more generally, πνεῦμα μεμιασμένον νοσηροῖσι μιάσμασι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 5.)]
(μιαίνω) stain, defilement, especially by murder or other crime, taint of guilt, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 169 (Lyric poetry), 281, etc.; οὐκ ἔστι γῆρας τοῦδε τοῦ μ. [prev. author] “Th.” 682; μ. φεύγων αἵματος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 35; μ. τῶν φυτευσάντων λαβεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1012; οὐ προσῆκον μίασμα εἰς οἴκους εἰσάγεσθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.1.3; μ. τινὸς ἐπεξέρχεσθαι [prev. author] 4.3.6; τὸ μ. εἰς αὑτὸν δέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 871b: in _plural_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1420, “Ch.” 1017; αἱμάτων μιάσμασι χρανθεῖσα γαῖα [prev. author] “Supp.” 265, etc.)]
II that which defiles, pollution, of persons, χώρας μ. καὶ θεῶν ἐγχωρίων [Refs ([prev. author] “Ag.” 1645)]; πατροκτόνον μ. καὶ θεῶν στύγος, of Clytaemnestra, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ch.” 1028: μ. χώρας ἐλαύνειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 97; ὡς μ. τοῦδ᾽ ἡμὶν ὄντος [prev. work] 241)]: in Prose more generally, πνεῦμα μεμιασμένον νοσηροῖσι μιάσμασι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 5.)]