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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, ἡ, (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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - or if they touch human uncleanness (anything that would make them unclean) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:20 - But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD, they must be cut off from their people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground[fn]—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD must be cut off from their people.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:3 - Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - “ ‘When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:30 - The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 - “ ‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place,[fn] which is among them.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:16 - In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the tent of meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:19 - He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:19 - “ ‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23 - “ ‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden.[fn] For three years you are to consider it forbidden[fn]; it must not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:21 - “ ‘If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - “ ‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:3 - “Say to them: ‘For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - “ ‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease[fn] or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human corpse, they defile the LORD’s tabernacle. They must be cut off from Israel. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, they are unclean; their uncleanness remains on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - But he said to me, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:4 - Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:5 - and said: “Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the LORD, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16 - The priests went into the sanctuary of the LORD to purify it. They brought out to the courtyard of the LORD’s temple everything unclean that they found in the temple of the LORD. The Levites took it and carried it out to the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:21 - So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11 - you gave through your servants the prophets when you said: ‘The land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16 - There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:9 - The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:34 - They set up their vile images in the house that bears my Name and defiled it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9 - Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. “Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:20 - They took pride in their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols. They made it into vile images; therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:10 - In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11 - Then set the empty pot on the coals till it becomes hot and its copper glows, so that its impurities may be melted and its deposit burned away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:17 - “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman’s monthly uncleanness in my sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25 - I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:29 - I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:24 - I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:10 - So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:10 - Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:6 - I will pelt you with filth, I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.
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