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Lexicon :: Strong's G3392 - miainō

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μιαίνω
Transliteration
miainō (Key)
Pronunciation
me-ah'-ee-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps a primary verb
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:644,593

Trench's Synonyms: xxxi. μολύνω, μιαίνω.

Strong’s Definitions

μιαίνω miaínō, me-ah'-ee-no; perhaps a primary verb; to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally):—defile.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G3392 in the following manner: defile (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G3392 in the following manner: defile (5x).

  1. to dye with another colour, to stain

  2. to defile, pollute, sully, contaminate, soil

    1. to defile with sins

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μιαίνω miaínō, me-ah'-ee-no; perhaps a primary verb; to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally):—defile.
STRONGS G3392:
μιαίνω; passive, 1 aorist subjunctive 3 person plural μιανθῶσιν; perfect 3 person singular μεμίανται (unless it be better to take this form as a plural; cf. Krüger, § 33, 3 Anm. 9; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 101 Anm. 7; Ausf. Spr. § 101 Anm. 13; Buttmann, 41 (36); (Winer's Grammar, § 58, 6 b. β.)), participle μεμιασμενος (Titus 1:15 R G) and μειαμμενος (ibid. L T Tr WH; also Wis. 7:25; Tobit 2:9; Josephus, b. j. 4, 5, 2 edition, Bekker; cf. Matthiae, i., p. 415; Krüger, § 40, under the word; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 35; Otto on Theophil. ad Autol. 1, 1, p. 2f; (Veitch, under the word)); from Homer down;
1. to dye with another color, to stain: ἐλέφαντα φοίνικι, Homer Iliad 4, 141.
2. to defile, pollute, sully, contaminate, soil (the Sept. often for טִמֵּא): in a physical and a moral sense, σάρκα (of licentiousness), Jude 1:8; in a moral sense, τόν συνείδησιν, τόν νοῦν, passive Titus 1:15; absolutely, to defile with sin, passive ibid. and in Hebrews 12:15; for הֶחֱטִיא, Deuteronomy 24:6(4); in a ritual sense, of men, passive John 18:28 (Leviticus 22:5, 8; Numbers 19:13, 20; Tobit 2:9).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
22:5; 22:8
Numbers
19:13; 19:20
Deuteronomy
24:6
John
18:28
Titus
1:15; 1:15
Hebrews
12:15
Jude
1:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3392 matches the Greek μιαίνω (miainō),
which occurs 110 times in 100 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 34:5–Deu 21:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:5 - When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - Jacob's sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it - he got on my couch!

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:24 - "'By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - The priest must then examine the infection on the skin of the body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of the body, then it is a diseased infection, so when the priest examines it he must pronounce the person unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:8 - The priest must then examine it, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is a disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is a chronic disease on the skin of his body, so the priest is to pronounce him unclean. The priest must not merely quarantine him, for he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:14 - But whenever raw flesh appears in it he will be unclean,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - so the priest is to examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean - it is diseased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - The priest will then examine it, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is a diseased infection that has broken out in the boil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:22 - If it is spreading further on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is an infection.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - the priest must examine it, and if the hair has turned white in the bright spot and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is a diseased infection.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27 - The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if it is spreading further on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is a diseased infection.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest is to examine the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair in it is reddish yellow and thin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is scall, a disease of the head or the beard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44 - he is a diseased man. He is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his infection on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:59

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59 - This is the law of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen, or the warp or woof, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 - "'Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:32 - This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 - "'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1 - The LORD said to Moses: "Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron - say to them, 'For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:4 - He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person's impurity -

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - and a man has sexual relations with her without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught -

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is defiled; or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled -

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, "If no other man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband's authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if you have gone astray while under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you...."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness - her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - "'This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:9 - "'If anyone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he must shave his head on the day of his purification - on the seventh day he must shave it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - He must rededicate to the LORD the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, but the former days will not be counted because his separation was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the LORD live among the Israelites."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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