Lexicon amiantos: undefiled Original Word: ἀμίαντος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: amiantos Phonetic Spelling: (am-ee'-an-tos) Short Definition: undefiled, untainted Definition: undefiled, untainted, free from contamination. HELPS word-Studies 283 amíantos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 3392 /miaínō, "to stain, defile") – properly, untinted (unstained); (figuratively) undefiled because unstained. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and miainóDefinitionundefiled NASB Translationundefiled (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 283: ἀμίαντοςἀμίαντος, ( μιαίνω), "not defiled, unsoiled; free from that by which the nature of a thing is deformed and debased, or its force and vigor impaired": καίτη pure, free from adultery, Hebrews 13:4; κληρονομία (without defect), 1 Peter 1:4; θρησκεία, James 1:27; pure from sin, Hebrews 7:26. (Also in the Greek writings; in an ethical sense, Plato, legg. 6, p. 777 e.; Plutarch, Periel. e. 39 βίος καθαρός καί ἀμίαντος.)
Strong's undefiled. From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of miaino; unsoiled, i.e. (figuratively) pure -- undefiled. see GREEK a see GREEK miaino |
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