μολύνω
molýnō · G3435 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to soil, to make dirty
To cause something to become dirty or soiled
ExamplesRevelation 3:4 ‘But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.
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to defile, to stain
To cause something to be ceremonially impure, with the implication of serious defilement
Examples1 Corinthians 8:7 However, not all people have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
Revelation 14:4 These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are celibate. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from mankind as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 2
- συνείδησιςconscience 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἱμάτιονclothing 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μετάwith, after+ γυνήwoman, wife 1
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὗτοςthis 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
- μιαίνω miaínō · G3392 · to defile, to contaminate, to cause to be morally filthy
- Both terms describe defilement or contamination, with μιαίνω encompassing both ceremonial and moral tainting, while μολύνω focuses on figurative soiling. The terms function as interchangeable expressions for the concept of spiritual or moral contamination in New Testament usage.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To defile, to stain53.34
- This sense denotes ceremonial or moral contamination. Revelation 3:4 commends the few in Sardis “who have not soiled their garments.”
- To soil, to make dirty79.56
- This sense denotes ordinary physical staining or soiling. 1 Corinthians 8:7 speaks of some whose conscience, being weak, “is defiled” by eating food offered to idols.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist active ἐμόλυνα; passive present μολύνομαι; 1 aorist ἐμολυνθην; from…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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