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Lexicon :: Strong's G3392 - miainō

Aa
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 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; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they came.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spake, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 BoxGen 49:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 -
Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence;
Because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed;
Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:24 - And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and if the hair in the plague be turned white, and the appearance of the plague be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:8 - and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: he shall not shut him up; for he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:14 - But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:22 - and if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - then the priest shall look upon it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin; it is leprosy, it hath broken out in the burning: and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27 - and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - then the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, and there be in it yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scall, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44 - he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59 - This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 - Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:32 - This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth from him, so that he is unclean thereby;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - I also will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband; for her may he defile himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:4 - He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:29 - This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 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 unto God is upon his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - Whosoever toucheth a dead person, the body of a man that hath died, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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