ΜΙΕΡΟΦΑΓΙΑ, μιεροφαγια
MIEROPHAGIA, mierophagia
Sounds Like: mee-eh-roh-fah-GEE-ah
Translations: defiled eating, unclean eating, sacrilegious eating, eating of defiled things, eating of unclean things
From the root: ΜΙΑΡΟΣ, ΦΑΓΩ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This is a compound word referring to the act of eating things that are considered defiled, unclean, or sacrilegious. It implies a violation of religious or moral purity through consumption. It would be used in contexts discussing forbidden foods or practices that render one impure.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΙΑΡΟΣ, ΦΑΓΩ.
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.
- ΜΙΑΡΟΦΑΓΗΣΑΙΜΕΝ — we might eat defiled things, we might eat unclean things
- ΜΙΑΡΟΦΑΓΟΥΜΕΝ — we eat defiled things, we eat unclean things, we eat polluted things
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