ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΣ, ακαθαρτος
AKATHARTOS, akathartos
Sounds Like: ah-ka-THAR-tos
Translations: unclean, impure, defiled
From the root: ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This adjective describes something that is ceremonially or morally impure, defiled, or unfit for use. It is often used in a religious context to refer to things or people that are not ritually clean, or in a moral sense to describe something that is morally corrupt or sinful. It is a compound word formed from the negative prefix 'A-' (meaning 'not') and 'ΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΣ' (meaning 'cleansed' or 'purified').
Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G169 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Leviticus — 22:6
- Numbers — 19:7, 19:8, 19:10, 19:11, 19:13, 19:16, 19:19, 19:20, 19:21, 19:22
- Proverbs — 3:32, 16:5, 17:15, 21:15
- Job — 15:16
- Isaiah — 35:8, 52:1
- Ephesians — 5:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΙ — unclean, impure, unholy, defiled, unclean ones, impure ones
- ἈΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΙΣ — to unclean, to impure, to defiled, unclean, impure, defiled
- ἈΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΝ — unclean, impure, defiled, an unclean thing, an impure thing
- ἈΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΣ — unclean, impure, defiled
- ἈΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΥ — unclean, impure, defiled, an unclean thing, of an unclean thing
- ἈΚΑΘΑΡΤΩ — (to) unclean, (to) impure, (to) defiled
- ἈΚΑΘΑΡΤΩΝ — unclean, impure, defiled, unholy
- ΑΚΑΘΑ — unclean, impure, defiled, unholy
- ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΑ — unclean, impure, unclean things, impure things
- ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΟ — unclean, impure, defiled, an unclean, an impure, a defiled
- ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΙ — unclean, impure, defiled
- ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΙΣ — to unclean, to impure, to defiled, to unholy
- ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΝ — unclean, impure, defiled, an unclean thing
- ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΟΥ — of unclean, of impure, of defiled
- ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΩ — unclean, impure, defiled, an unclean thing
- ΑΚΑΘΑΡΤΩΝ — of unclean, of impure, of defiled
- ΑΚΑΘΑΣ — unclean, impure, defiled, unholy
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