Lexicon miasma: a stain, defilement Original Word: μίασμα, ατος, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: miasma Phonetic Spelling: (mee'-as-mah) Short Definition: pollution, defilement Definition: pollution, defilement; a stain. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3393 míasma(from 3392 /miaínō) – pollution (spiritual stain) that results from vice, i.e. spiritually contaminating a person (used only in 2 Pet 2:20). See 3392 (miainō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom miainóDefinitiona stain, defilement NASB Translationdefilements (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3393: μίασμαμίασμα, μιασματος, τό ( μιαίνω), "that which defiles (cf. καύχημα, 2); defilement" ( Vulg.coinquinatio): tropically, μιάσματα τοῦ κόσμου, vices the foulness of which contaminates one in his contact with the ungodly mass of mankind, 2 Peter 2:20. (Tragg., Antiphanes, Demosthenes, Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch; the Sept., Leviticus 7:8 (18); Jeremiah 39:34 (); Judith 9:2; 1 Macc. 13:50.)
Strong's pollution, foul deed From miaino ("miasma"); (morally) foulness (properly, the effect) -- pollution. see GREEK miaino |
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