Lexicon rhuparia: filth, pollution Original Word: ῥυπαρία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: rhuparia Phonetic Spelling: (hroo-par-ee'-ah) Short Definition: filth, pollution Definition: filth, pollution, defilement. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 4507 rhyparía (a feminine noun) – properly, dirt (filth); (figuratively) moral filth that soils (desecrates) the soul, emphasizing a specific application (influence) of moral filth. 4507 /rhyparía ("moral filth") is only used in Js 1:21. [See also the cognate masculine noun 4509 (rhýpos), "moral filth viewed as a working principle."] Thayer's STRONGS NT 4507: ῤυπαρίαῤυπαρία, ῥυπαριας, ἡ ( ῤυπαρός), filthiness ( Plutarch, praecept. conjug. c. 28); metaphorically, of wickedness as moral defilement: James 1:21. (Of sordidness, in Critias quoted in Pollux 3, 116; Plutarch, de adulat. et amic. § 19; others.)
Strong's dirtiness, turpitude. From rhuparos; dirtiness (morally) -- turpitude. see GREEK rhuparos |
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