Strong's Concordance miainó: to stain, defile Original Word: μιαίνωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: miainó Phonetic Spelling: (me-ah'-ee-no) Definition: to stain, defile Usage: I stain, pollute, defile, corrupt. HELPS Word-studies 3392 miaínō – properly, to stain (with paint or dye); (figuratively) to stain (defile) the soul, i.e. like when sin taints by its polluting effects ("moral, spiritual stains"). The root mia- ("tainted at the source") shows everything passing through it also becomes stained ("reconstituted," polluted). [3392 (miaínō) literally means "to dye, stain with color." Figuratively, it refers to rendering something morally (spiritually) defiled.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. verb Definition to stain, defile NASB Translation defile (1), defiled (4). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3392: μιαίνωμιαίνω; passive, 1 aorist subjunctive 3 person plural 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 Perhaps a primary verb; to sully or taint, i.e. Contaminate (ceremonially or morally) -- defile. Englishman's Concordance John 18:28 V-ASP-3PGRK: ἵ NAS: so that they would not be defiled, but might eat KJV: lest they should be defiled; but INT: that not they might be stained but they might eat Titus 1:15 V-RPM/P-DMP Titus 1:15 V-RIM/P-3S Hebrews 12:15 V-ASP-3P Jude 1:8 V-PIA-3P Strong's Greek 3392 |