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Greek verb · G3075

λυμαίνομαι

lymainomailoo-mah'-ee-nom-ahee

to outrage, maltreat; to corrupt, defile

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: lymaínomai

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3075is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G3075

properly, to soil, i.e. (figuratively) insult (maltreat)

The King James renders it: make havock of.

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

lymainomai is rendered "to outrage, maltreat; to corrupt, defile". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to outrage, maltreat".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 8:3But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

The first use

But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

Acts 8:3ἐλυμαίνετο

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to outrage, maltreat, and to corrupt, defile.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to outrage, maltreatwith accusative, Act.8:3.Tagged as
  • was destroying1
WhereActs 8:3But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house…
to corrupt, defileEze.16:25Tagged aslisted under the tableWhereProverbs 23:8You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling 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

  • ἐλυμαίνετο1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-INI-3S

Acts

one use
  • But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

    Acts 8:3

    • ἐλυμαίνετοelumainetoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was destroying

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

Revised 2026-09-05. Every cited work, the sources registry →