Greek verb · G3392
μιαίνω
miainome-ah'-ee-no
to dye or stain.; to stain, defile, soil
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: miaínō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3392is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3392
to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally)
The King James renders it: defile.
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
miaino is rendered "to dye or stain.; to stain, defile, soil". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Titus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to dye or stain.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
John 18:28μιανθῶσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to dye or stain., and to stain, defile, soil.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to dye or stain. | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning… |
| to stain, defile, soil__(a) in physical sense | Tagged as
| WhereLeviticus 22:5or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean… |
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 5, 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
- μιανθῶσιν2
- μεμιαμμένοις1
- μεμίανται1
- μιαίνουσιν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person plural2V-APS-3P
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-PAI-3P
- verb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-RPI-3S
- verb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1V-RPP-DPM
John
one use
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
- μιανθῶσινmianthosinverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may be defiled
Titus
two uses
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- μεμιαμμένοιςmemiammenoisverb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: defiled
- μεμίανταιmemiantaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: have been defiled
Hebrews
one use
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
- μιανθῶσινmianthosinverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: may be defiled
Jude
one use
Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
- μιαίνουσινmiainousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: defile
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.