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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 1 / 2 (Gen 34:5–Deu 21:23)

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - “[fn]Uncontrolled 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 an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will 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 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:24 - ‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - ‘Do not render [fn]yourselves detestable through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean.

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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. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - “The priest shall look at the mark on the skin of the [fn]body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of his [fn]body, it is an infection of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:8 - “The priest shall look, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is [fn]a chronic leprosy on the skin of his [fn]body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not [fn]isolate him, for he is unclean.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - “The priest shall look at the raw flesh, and he shall pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - and the priest shall look, and behold, if [fn]it appears to be lower than the skin, and the hair on it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy, it 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 farther on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - then the priest shall look at it. And if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn. Therefore, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27 - and the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads farther in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - then the priest shall look at the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and there is thin yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale, it is leprosy of the head or of 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 shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:59

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59 - This is the law for the mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:31

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 their defiling My [fn]tabernacle that is among them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:32 - This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man [fn]who has a seminal emission so that he is unclean by it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 - ‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - ‘For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its [fn]punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - ‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the LORD your God.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - ‘I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his [fn]offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - also for his virgin sister, who is near to him [fn]because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:4 - ‘He shall not defile himself as a [fn]relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:5

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;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - ‘He shall not eat an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it; I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - “You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - and a man has intercourse with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is [fn]undetected, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - [fn]if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has not defiled herself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - ‘The priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness, being under the authority of your husband, be [fn]immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - ‘When he has made her drink the water, then it shall come about, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse will go into her [fn]and cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will [fn]waste away, and the woman will 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, she will then be free and conceive [fn]children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - ‘This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, being under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - ‘He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:9 - ‘But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - and shall dedicate to the LORD his days [fn]as a [fn]Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his separation was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - ‘Anyone who touches a corpse, the [fn]body of a man who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the [fn]tabernacle of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not [fn]sprinkled 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 - ‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself from uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water for impurity has not been sprinkled 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 am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is [fn]accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

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