ΜΙΑΣΜΑΤΑ, μιασματα
MIASMATA, miasmata
Sounds Like: mee-AS-mah-tah
Translations: defilements, pollutions, impurities
From the root: ΜΙΑΣΜΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to things that are defiling or polluting, often in a moral or religious sense. It describes impurities or stains that corrupt or render something unclean. It is typically used in a plural form to denote multiple acts or sources of defilement.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G3394 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Peter — 2:20
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 13:263
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Jeremiah — 39:34
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 2 Peter — 2:20
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΙΑΣΜΑ.
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.
- ΜΙΑΜΜΑΤΟΣ — of defilement, of pollution, of contamination
- ΜΙΑΝΣΜΑΤΑ — defilements, pollutions, stains, impurities
- ΜΙΑΣΜΑ — defilement, a defilement, pollution, a pollution
- ΜΙΑΣΜΑΤΙ — to defilement, to pollution, to stain, to contamination, to impurity, to a defilement, to a pollution, to a stain, to a contamination, to an impurity
- ΜΙΑΣΜΑΤΟΣ — of defilement, of pollution, of a stain, of a defiling thing
- ΜΙΑΣΜΑΤΩΝ — of defilements, of pollutions, of stains
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