Greek noun (feminine) · G167
ἀκαθαρσία
akatharsiaak-ath-ar-see'-ah
impurity
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: akatharsía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G167is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G167
impurity (the quality), physically or morally
The King James renders it: uncleanness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
akatharsia is rendered "impurity". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
Matthew 23:27ἀκαθαρσίας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seven of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- impurity8
- of impurity1
- to impurity1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀκαθαρσίᾳ3
- ἀκαθαρσίας3
- ἀκαθαρσία2
- ἀκαθαρσίαν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular3N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
Matthew
one use
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- ἀκαθαρσίαςakatharsiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: impurity
Romans
two uses
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
- ἀκαθαρσίανakatharsiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: impurity
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- ἀκαθαρσίᾳakatharsianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: to impurity
2 Corinthians
one use
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
- ἀκαθαρσίᾳakatharsianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: impurity
Galatians
one use
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- ἀκαθαρσίαakatharsianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: impurity
Ephesians
two uses
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
- ἀκαθαρσίαςakatharsiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of impurity
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
- ἀκαθαρσίαakatharsianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: impurity
Colossians
one use
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- ἀκαθαρσίανakatharsiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: impurity
1 Thessalonians
two uses
For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
- ἀκαθαρσίαςakatharsiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: impurity
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- ἀκαθαρσίᾳakatharsianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: impurity
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.