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Lexicon :: Strong's G169 - akathartos

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ἀκάθαρτος
Transliteration
akathartos (Key)
Pronunciation
ak-ath'-ar-tos
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἄλφα (G1) (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of καθαίρω (G2508) (meaning cleansed)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:427,381

Strong’s Definitions

ἀκάθαρτος akáthartos, ak-ath'-ar-tos; from G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G2508 (meaning cleansed); impure (ceremonially, morally (lewd) or specially, (demonic)):—foul, unclean.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's G169 in the following manner: unclean (28x), foul (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's G169 in the following manner: unclean (28x), foul (2x).
  1. not cleansed, unclean

    1. in a ceremonial sense: that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law

    2. in a moral sense: unclean in thought and life

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀκάθαρτος akáthartos, ak-ath'-ar-tos; from G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G2508 (meaning cleansed); impure (ceremonially, morally (lewd) or specially, (demonic)):—foul, unclean.
STRONGS G169:
ἀκάθαρτος, -όν, (καθαίρω) [from Sophocles down], in the Sept. equivalent to טָמֶא, not cleansed, unclean;
a. in a ceremonial sense, that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law, lest impurity be contracted: Acts 10:14; Acts 11:8 (of food); Acts 10:28; 1 Corinthians 7:14 (of men); 2 Corinthians 6:17 (from Isaiah 52:11, of things pertaining to idolatry); Revelation 18:2 (of birds),
b. in a moral sense, unclean in thought and life (frequent in Plato): Ephesians 5:5; τὰ ἀκάθαρτα τῆς πορνείας, Revelation 17:4 (according to the true reading); πνεύματα, demons, bad angels [in twenty-three passages of the Gospels, Acts, and Revelation]: Matthew 10:1; Matthew 12:43; Mark 1:23, 26; Mark 3:11, etc.; Luke 4:33, 36; Luke 6:18, etc.; Acts 5:16; Acts 8:7; Revelation 16:13; Revelation 18:2 (πνεύματα πονηρά in Matthew 12:45; Luke 7:21; Luke 8:2; Luke 11:26; Acts 19:12f, 15f).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
52:11
Matthew
10:1; 12:43; 12:45
Mark
1:23; 1:26; 3:11
Luke
4:33; 4:36; 6:18; 7:21; 8:2; 11:26
Acts
5:16; 8:7; 10:14; 10:28; 11:8; 19:12; 19:15
1 Corinthians
7:14
2 Corinthians
6:17
Ephesians
5:5
Revelation
16:13; 17:4; 18:2; 18:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G169 matches the Greek ἀκάθαρτος (akathartos),
which occurs 152 times in 123 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Lev 5:2–Lev 15:7)

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 -

“Or if someone touches anything unclean ​— ​a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature ​— ​without being aware of it, he is unclean and incurs guilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 -

“Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned. Everyone who is clean may eat any other meat.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 -

“If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, abhorrent[fn] creature, and eats meat from the LORD’s fellowship sacrifice, that person is to be cut off from his people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10 -

“You must distinguish between the holy and the common, and the clean and the unclean,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 -

“But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these:

camels, though they chew the cud,

do not have divided hooves ​— ​they are unclean for you;

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5 -

“hyraxes, though they chew the cud,

do not have hooves ​— ​they are unclean for you;

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6 -

“hares, though they chew the cud,

do not have hooves ​— ​they are unclean for you;

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7 -

“pigs, though they have divided hooves,

do not chew the cud ​— ​they are unclean for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 -

“Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses ​— ​they are unclean for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:24 -

“These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:25 -

“and whoever carries any of their carcasses is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 -

“All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 -

“All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 -

“and anyone who carries their carcasses is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 -

“These creatures that swarm on the ground are unclean for you:

weasels,[fn] mice,

any kind of large lizard,[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 -

“These are unclean for you among all the swarming creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 -

“When any one of them dies and falls on anything it becomes unclean ​— ​any item of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work. It is to be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:33 -

“If any of them falls into any clay pot, everything in it will become unclean; you are to break it.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:34 -

“Any edible food coming into contact with that unclean water will become unclean, and any drinkable liquid in any container will become unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 -

“Anything one of their carcasses falls on will become unclean. If it is an oven or stove, it is to be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 -

“A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 -

“but if water has been put on the seed and one of their carcasses falls on it, it is unclean for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 -

“If one of the animals that you use for food dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:40 -

“Anyone who eats some of its carcass is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 -

“Do not become contaminated by any creature that swarms; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 -

“in order to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the animals that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:2 -

“Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:4 -

“She will continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 -

“But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 -

“it is a chronic serious disease on the skin of his body, and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not quarantine him, for he is unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 -

“When the priest examines the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean; this is a serious skin disease.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:36 -

“the priest is to examine the person. If the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45 -

“The person who has a case of serious skin disease is to have his clothes torn and his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean! ’

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 -

“He will remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 -

“The priest is to reexamine the contamination on the seventh day. If it has spread in the fabric, the warp, the weft, or the leather, regardless of how it is used, the contamination is harmful mildew; it is unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 -

“After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine the contamination. If the appearance of the contaminated article has not changed, it is unclean. Even though the contamination has not spread, you must burn the fabric. It is a fungus[fn] on the front or back of the fabric.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:19 -

“The priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he will slaughter the burnt offering.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 -

“The priest must order them to clear the house before he enters to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean. Afterward the priest will come to examine the house.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 -

“the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 -

“He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and have the plaster[fn] that is scraped off dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 -

“the priest is to come and examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew; the house is unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 -

“It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:46 -

“Whoever enters the house during any of the days the priest quarantines it will be unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:47 -

“Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 -

“to determine when something is unclean or clean. This is the law regarding skin disease and mildew.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 -

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his member, he is unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 -

“Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 -

“Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:6 -

“Whoever sits on furniture that the man with the discharge was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:7 -

“Whoever touches the body[fn] of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.


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