Lexicon molunó: to stain, defile Original Word: μολύνωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: molunó Phonetic Spelling: (mol-oo'-no) Short Definition: I soil, stain, pollute, defile Definition: I soil, stain, pollute, defile, lit. and met. HELPS word-Studies 3435 molýnō – properly, to soil, make mucky (dirty); (figuratively) defile; (passive) become spiritually besmirched (soiled). 3435 /molýnō (literally "besmear with mud") is used of sin smearing a person with its spiritual filth. For the antonym of this term, see 2511 /katharízō ("to purge what is foul or polluted"). [3435 /molýnō used of "moral soil (smut)" that defouls and besmirches the soul (so also in Aristotle and Plato).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitionto stain, defile NASB Translationdefiled (2), soiled (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3435: μολύνωμολύνω: 1 aorist active ἐμόλυνα; passive present μολύνομαι; 1 aorist ἐμολυνθην; from Aristophanes down; to pollute, stain, contaminate, defile; in the N. T. used only in symbolic and figurative discourse: οὐκ ἐμόλυναν τά ἱμάτια αὐτῶν, of those who have kept themselves pure from the defilement of sin, Revelation 3:4 (cf. Zechariah 3:3f); μετά γυναικῶν οὐκ ἐμολύνθησαν, who have not soiled themselves by fornication and adultery, Revelation 14:4; ἡ συνείδησις μολύνεται, of a conscience reproached (defiled) by sin, 1 Corinthians 8:7 ( inexplebili quodam laedendi proposito conscientiam polluebat, Ammianus Marcellinus 15, 2; opposed to καθαρά συνείδησις, 1 Timothy 3:9; 2 Timothy 1:3; μολύνειν τήν ψυχήν, Sir. 21:28; but see μιαίνω, 2). (Synonym: see μιαίνω, at the end.)
Strong's defile. Probably from melas; to soil (figuratively) -- defile. see GREEK melas |
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