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Lexicon :: Strong's G167 - akatharsia

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ἀκαθαρσία
Transliteration
akatharsia (Key)
Pronunciation
ak-ath-ar-see'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:427,381

Strong’s Definitions

ἀκαθαρσία akatharsía, ak-ath-ar-see'-ah; from G169; impurity (the quality), physically or morally:—uncleanness.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G167 in the following manner: uncleanness (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G167 in the following manner: uncleanness (10x).
  1. uncleanness

    1. physical

    2. in a moral sense: the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living

      1. of impure motives

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀκαθαρσία akatharsía, ak-ath-ar-see'-ah; from G169; impurity (the quality), physically or morally:—uncleanness.
STRONGS G167:
ἀκαθαρσία, -ας, , (ἀκάθαρτος) [from Hippocrates down], uncleanness;
a. physical: Matthew 23:27.
b. in a moral sense, the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living: Romans 1:24; Romans 6:19; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; used of impure motives in 1 Thessalonians 2:3. (Demosthenes, p. 553, 12.) Cf. Tittmann i., p. 150f.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
23:27
Romans
1:24; 6:19
2 Corinthians
12:21
Galatians
5:19
Ephesians
4:19; 5:3
Colossians
3:5
1 Thessalonians
2:3; 4:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G167 matches the Greek ἀκαθαρσία (akatharsia),
which occurs 49 times in 43 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - ‘Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:20 - ‘But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Yahweh, [fn]in his uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - ‘When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean [fn]detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Yahweh, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:3 - ‘This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - ‘If a man actually lies with her so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 -

‘Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond [fn]that period, all the days of her unclean discharge she shall continue as though [fn]in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - ‘Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like [fn]her bed at menstruation; and every thing on which she sits shall be unclean, like her uncleanness from her menstrual impurity.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:30 - ‘And the priest shall [fn]offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before Yahweh because of her unclean discharge.’
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 -

“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by making My [fn]tabernacle that is among them unclean.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16 - “So he shall make atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and thus he shall do for the tent of meeting which abides with them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:19 - “With his finger he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times and cleanse it and set it apart as holy from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:19 -

‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23 -

‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall designate their fruit as [fn]forbidden. Three years it shall be [fn]forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:21 - ‘If there is a man who takes his brother’s wife, it is an [fn]impure act; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They will be childless.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - ‘You are therefore to separate between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make [fn]yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything [fn]that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:3 - “Say to them, ‘If any man among all your seed throughout your generations comes near to the holy gifts which the sons of Israel set apart as holy to Yahweh, and he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from before Me; I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - ‘No man of the seed of Aaron, who is a leper or who has a discharge, may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or if a man has a seminal emission,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or if a man touches any teeming things by which he is made unclean or any man by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - ‘Anyone who touches a corpse, the [fn]body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, [fn]makes the [fn]tabernacle of Yahweh unclean; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not [fn]splashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - “And he said to me, ‘Behold, you [fn]shall be with child and give birth to a son, so now you shall not drink wine or strong drink, and you shall not eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:4 - Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:5 - Then he said to them, “Listen to me, O Levites. Set yourselves apart now as holy, and set apart as holy the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the holy place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16 - So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of Yahweh they brought out to the court of the house of Yahweh. Then the Levites received it to bring out to the Kidron [fn]valley, to an outer area.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:21 - Then the sons of Israel who returned from exile and all those who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to join them, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate the Passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11 - which You have commanded by the hand of Your slaves the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess is an impure land with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end, and with their uncleanness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16 -

There are six things which Yahweh hates,

Even seven which are an abomination [fn]to Him:

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:9 -

The scheming of folly is sin,

And the scoffer is an abomination to men.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - “And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:34 - “But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9 -

Teth

Her uncleanness was in her skirts;

She did not remember her future.

Therefore she has gone down astonishingly;

She has no comforter.

“See, O Yahweh, my affliction,

For the enemy has magnified himself!”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - But I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any offensive meat ever entered my mouth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:20 - ‘They [fn]transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an impure thing to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 -

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh does not see!’

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:10 - “In you [fn]they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - “I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will put an end to your uncleanness from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11 -

“Then stand it empty on its coals

So that it may be hot

And its bronze may [fn]glow

And its uncleanness may be melted in it,

Its rust brought to a complete end.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:17 - “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25 - “Then I will [fn]sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:29 - “Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not [fn]bring a famine on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:24 - “According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:10 -

“So now I will uncover her lewdness

In the sight of her lovers,

And no one will deliver her out of My hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:10 -

“Arise and go,

For this is no place of rest

Because of the uncleanness that wreaks destruction,

A painful destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:6 -

“I will throw detestable filth on you

And display you as a wicked fool

And set you up as a spectacle.

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