Greek verb · G3435
μολύνω
molynomol-oo'-no
to defile
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: molýnō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3435is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3435
to soil (figuratively)
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
molyno is rendered "to defile". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 8:7But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:7μολύνεται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it is defiled1
- soiled1
- was defiled1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μολυσμός | molysmos | defilement | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ἐμόλυναν1
- ἐμολύνθησαν1
- μολύνεται1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-API-3P
- verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PPI-3S
1 Corinthians
one use
But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
- μολύνεταιmolunetaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it is defiled
Revelation
two uses
But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.
- ἐμόλυνανemolunanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: soiled
These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
- ἐμολύνθησανemolunthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: was defiled
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.