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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)
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10 - as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - However, you must not eat these from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:5 - The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:6 - The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:7 - The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:24

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 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:25 - and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - "'All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - "'Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean - any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:33 - As for any clay vessel they fall into, everything in it will become unclean and you must break it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:34 - Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 - However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 - "'Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:40 - One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and 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 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 - to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:2 - "Tell the Israelites, 'When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:4 - Then she will remain thirty-three days in blood purity. She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity.

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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 13:15

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 13:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:36 - then the priest is to examine it, and if the scall has spread on the skin the priest is not to search further for reddish yellow hair. The person is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:45 - "As for the diseased person who has the infection, his clothes must be torn, the hair of his head must be unbound, he must cover his mustache, and he must call out 'Unclean! Unclean!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - The whole time he has the infection he will be continually unclean. He must live in isolation, and his place of residence must be outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - He must then examine the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather - whatever the article into which the leather was made - the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out, and if the infection has not changed its appearance even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn it up in the fire. It is a fungus, whether on the back side or front side of the article.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:19 - "The priest must then perform the sin offering and make atonement for the one being cleansed from his impurity. After that he is to slaughter the burnt offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 - Then the priest will command that the house be cleared before the priest enters to examine the infection so that everything in the house does not become unclean, and afterward the priest will enter to examine the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown outside the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - Then he is to have the house scraped all around on the inside, and the plaster which is scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - the priest is to come and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant disease in the house. It is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:46 - Anyone who enters the house all the days the priest has quarantined it will be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:47 - Anyone who lies down in the house must wash his clothes. Anyone who eats in the house must wash his clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for dealing with infectious disease."

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:2 - "Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 - "'Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 - Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:6 - The one who sits on the furniture the man with a discharge sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:7 - The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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