Strong's Concordance miasma: a stain, defilement Original Word: μίασμα, ατος, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: miasma Phonetic Spelling: (mee'-as-mah) Short Definition: pollution, defilement Definition: pollution, defilement; a stain. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 3393 míasma(from 3392 /miaínō) – pollution (spiritual stain) that results from vice, i.e. spiritually contaminating a person (used only in 2 Pet 2:20). See 3392 (miainō). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3393: μίασμαμίασμα, μιασματος, τό (μιαίνω), "that which defiles (cf. καύχημα, 2); defilement" (Vulg.coinquinatio): tropically, μιάσματα τοῦ κόσμου, vices the foulness of which contaminates one in his contact with the ungodly mass of mankind, 2 Peter 2:20. (Tragg., Antiphanes, Demosthenes, Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch; the Sept., Leviticus 7:8 (18); Jeremiah 39:34 Strong's Exhaustive Concordance pollution, foul deedFrom miaino ("miasma"); (morally) foulness (properly, the effect) -- pollution. see GREEK miaino Forms and Transliterations μίασμά μιασματα μιάσματα μιασμάτων miasmata miásmataLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 33931 Occurrence μιάσματα — 1 Occ. 2 Peter 2:20 N-ANP GRK: ἀποφυγόντες τὰ μιάσματα τοῦ κόσμου NAS: after they have escaped the defilements of the world KJV: after they have escaped the pollutions of the world INT: having escaped the pollutions of the world |