noun · neuter
miasmem
Strong’sG3393
pollution, defilement
stem miasm-once in the New Testament0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μίασμα, -τος, τό
(< μιαίνω), chiefly in trag. and late writers; [in LXX: Le 7:8 (18) (פִּגּוּל), Je 39 (32):34 (שִׁקּוּץ), Ez 33:31 (בֶּצַע), Jth 9:2, 4 13:16, I Mac 13:50*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3393 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmee'-as-mah
(morally) foulness (properly, the effect)
Fromfrom G3392 ("miasma");
King Jamespollution.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(μιαίνω) stain, defilement, especially by murder or other crime, taint of guilt, Refs 5th c.BC+
II that which defiles, pollution, of persons, χώρας μ. καὶ θεῶν ἐγχωρίων Refs; πατροκτόνον μ. καὶ θεῶν στύγος, of Clytaemnestra, Refs 5th c.BC+: in Prose more generally, πνεῦμα μεμιασμένον νοσηροῖσι μιάσμασι Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | miasmem | miasmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | miasmeu | miasmeiu |
| to, for dative | miasme | miasmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
miasme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
miasmeim1×
2 Peter 2:20“defilements”ei gar apofugarantois teim miasmeim tou kosmou en epignōsia tou kuriou …If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior …