Lexical Summary molysmos: defilement Original Word: μολυσμόςTransliteration: molysmos Phonetic Spelling: (mol-oos-mos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: defilement Meaning: defilement Strong's Concordance filthiness, immoralityFrom moluno; a stain; i.e. (figuratively) immorality -- filthiness. see GREEK moluno Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3436: μολυσμόςμολυσμός, μολυσμοῦ, ὁ (μολύνω), defilement (Vulg.inquinamentum); an action by which anything is defiled: with the genitive of the thing defiled, σαρκός καί πνεύματος, 2 Corinthians 7:1. (Jeremiah 23:15; 1 Esdr. 8:80; 2 Macc. 5:27; Plutarch, mor., p. 779 c.; (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 32, 2; 2, 24, 5; etc.); often in ecclesiastical writings.) |
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