μολυσμός
molysmós · G3436 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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defilement, to be defiled
A state of defilement, involving both religious and moral aspects
Examples2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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 2 groups
- πνεῦμαspirit 1
- σάρξflesh, body, physical body 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόfrom 2
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 2 words
- μίασμα míasma · G3393 · impurity, impure, tainted
- Both terms denote moral defilement or contamination, within the field of pollution and impurity: "stain, immorality" for the first and "foulness, polluted state" for the second.
- ἀκαθαρσία akatharsía · G167 · impurity, immorality, filthiness
- Both terms describe moral defilement or impurity, though ἀκαθαρσία functions as a broader quality noun denoting the state or condition of impurity (whether physical or moral), while μολυσμός carries the more specific metaphor of a stain or spot, emphasizing the disfiguring mark left by immoral conduct. The single attestation of μολυσμός in the corpus limits verification of its full interchangeability across all registers.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Defilement, to be defiled53.35
- This sense denotes the state or condition of being contaminated. 2 Corinthians 7:1 urges believers to cleanse themselves “from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μολυσμοῦ, ὁ (μολύνω), defilement (Vulg.inquinamentum); an action by which anything is…
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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