μίασμα
míasma · G3393 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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impurity, impure, tainted, evil, defilement
A state of being tainted or stained by evil
Examples2 Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κόσμοςworld 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀποφεύγωto escape 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- μολυσμός molysmós · G3436 · defilement, to be defiled
- Both terms denote moral or spiritual contamination, with overlapping figurative senses of defilement or impurity. The distinction offered — a state or effect versus a stain or mark — acknowledges a real but minor difference in nuance while affirming substantial conceptual overlap, appropriate for genuine near synonyms.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impurity, impure, tainted, evil, defilement88.259
- This sense denotes a state of moral corruption or defilement. 2 Peter 2:20 warns of those who “escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” only to become entangled in them again.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μιασματος, τό (μιαίνω), "that which defiles (cf. καύχημα, 2); defilement"…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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