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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:5 - Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
because you went up to your father’s bed;
then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:24 - “And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - and the priest shall examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And if the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he shall pronounce him unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:8 - And the priest shall look, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:14 - But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - And the priest shall look, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a case of leprous disease that has broken out in the boil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:22 - And if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is a leprous disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27 - and the priest shall examine him the seventh day. If it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest shall examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, a leprous 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 leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:59

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59 - This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 - “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:32 - This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 - “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:4 - He shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall 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 shall be free and shall conceive children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though 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 - Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:9 - “And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - and separate himself to the LORD for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - “If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

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