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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 2 / 2 (Deu 24:4–Hag 2:14)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one’s left at the gate of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:10 - And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:11 - For that would be a heinous crime;
that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:1 - A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:39 - Thus they became unclean by their acts,
and played the whore in their deeds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:28 - Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary,
and deliver Jacob to utter destruction
and Israel to reviling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I was angry with my people;
I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - And I brought you into a plentiful land
to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, you defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23 - How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way in the valley;
know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:33 - “How well you direct your course
to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
you have taught your ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If[fn] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
Would not that land be greatly polluted?
You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:30 - “For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself.[fn] From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.[fn] My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:22 - I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured[fn] place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:24 - I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places[fn] shall be profaned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out.” So they went out and struck in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11 - that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:11 - (though he himself did none of these things), who even eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - And I said to them, ‘Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 - “And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:26 - and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:30 - “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go whoring after their detestable things?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire,[fn] you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:43 - And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of[fn] your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:13 - And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:38 - Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:13 - On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:17 - “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23 - They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings[fn] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:25 - They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:3 - I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:10 - In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:4 - They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD,
and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like mourners’ bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:13 - Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:14 - Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.

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