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Strong's G167 ἀκαθαρσία (akatharsia)

Akatharsia means “uncleanness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H167 — ahal (“tent”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G167
Language Greek
Linked Usages 66
Books 25

Strong's G167 Quick Answer

Strong's G167 ἀκαθαρσία (akatharsia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. akatharsia (ak-ath-ar-see'-ah) n. 1. impurity (the quality) {physically or morally} It has 66 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include uncleanness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
akatharsia (ak-ath-ar-see'-ah) n. 1. impurity (the quality) {physically or morally}
Usage
66 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
uncleanness

Meaning and Definition

akatharsia (ak-ath-ar-see'-ah) n. 1. impurity (the quality) {physically or morally} [from G169] KJV: uncleanness Root(s): G169

Original Word
ἀκαθαρσία
Transliteration
akatharsia
Derivation
Root: ἀκάθαρτος R1: 169
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G167. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

impurity

Usage: ἀκαθαρσία, -ας, ἡ (ἀκάθαρτος), [in LXX chiefly for טֻמְאָה, טָמֵא ;] uncleanness, impurity, __(a) physical (MM, VGT, see word): Mat.23:27; __(b) moral: Rom.1:24 6:19, 2Co.12:21, Gal.5:19, Eph.4:19 5:3, Col.3:5, 1Th.2:3 4:7. † (AS)

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How Strong's G167 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render akatharsia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

uncleanness Matthew 23:27 10×

How Strong's G167 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 42 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G167 (ἀκαθαρσία) appears 63 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G167 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G167 in the New Testament

10 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 23:27 KJV

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Romans 1:24 KJV

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Romans 6:19 KJV

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Strong's G167 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

42 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Leviticus 5:3 Septuagint / Brenton

or should touch the uncleanness of a man, of whatever kind, which he may touch and be defiled by, and it should have escaped him, but afterward he should know—then he shall have transgressed.

Leviticus 7:20 Septuagint / Brenton

And whatsoever soul shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering which is the Lord’s, and his uncleanness be upon him, that soul shall perish from his people.

Leviticus 7:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering, which is the Lord’s, that soul shall perish from his people.

Strong's G167 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

10 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:40 Septuagint / Brenton

Wherefore against him Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon.

1 Esdras 1:47 Septuagint / Brenton

and he did evil also in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremiah from the mouth of the Lord.

1 Esdras 8:66 Septuagint / Brenton

threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.

Strong's G167 in 1 Enoch

4 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 5:4 Septuagint / Brenton

But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words With your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.

1 Enoch 10:11 Septuagint / Brenton

that each one of them will live five hundred years.' And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves

1 Enoch 10:20 Septuagint / Brenton

ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth

Usage Excerpts

First 66 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G167.

Leviticus 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
or should touch the uncleanness of a man, of whatever kind, which he may touch and be defiled by, and it should have escaped him, but afterward he should know—then he shall have transgressed.
Leviticus 7:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatsoever soul shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering which is the Lord’s, and his uncleanness be upon him, that soul shall perish from his people.
Leviticus 7:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering, which is the Lord’s, that soul shall perish from his people.
Leviticus 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhea out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.
Leviticus 15:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone shall lie with her, and her uncleanness be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he shall have lain shall be unclean.
Leviticus 15:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a woman have an issue of blood many days, not in the time of her separation; if the blood should also flow after her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
Leviticus 15:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And every bed on which she shall lie all the days of her flux shall be to her as the bed of her separation, and every seat whereon she shall sit shall be unclean according to the uncleanness of her separation.
Leviticus 15:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean flux.
Leviticus 15:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall cause the children of Israel to beware of their uncleannesses; so they shall not die for their uncleanness, in polluting my tabernacle that is among them.
Leviticus 16:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall make atonement for the sanctuary on account of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and for their trespasses in the matter of all their sins; and thus shall he do to the tabernacle of witness established among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Leviticus 16:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it seven times with his finger, and shall purge it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 18:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt not go in to a woman under separation for her uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 19:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whenever ye shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit tree, then shall ye purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 20:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoever shall take his brother’s wife, it is uncleanness; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall die childless.
Leviticus 20:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall make a distinction between the clean and the unclean cattle, and between clean and unclean birds; and ye shall not defile your souls with cattle, or with birds, or with any creeping things of the earth, which I have separated for you by reason of uncleanness.
Leviticus 22:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Say to them, Every man throughout your generations, whoever of all your seed shall approach to the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall consecrate to the Lord, while his uncleanness is upon him, that soul shall be cut off from me: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 22:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man of the seed of Aaron the priest, if he should have leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him,
Leviticus 22:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
or whosoever shall touch any unclean reptile, which will defile him, or who shall touch a man, whereby he shall defile him according to all his uncleanness:
Numbers 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every one that touches the carcass of the person of a man, if he should have died, and the other not have been purified, has defiled the tabernacle of the Lord: that soul shall be cut off from Israel, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
2 Kingdoms 11:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.
2 Chronicles 29:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and said to them, Hear, ye Levites: now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and cast out the impurity from the holy places.
2 Chronicles 29:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priests entered into the house of the Lord, to purify it, and they cast out all the uncleanness that was found in the house of the Lord, even into the court of the house of the Lord: and the Levites received it to cast into the brook of Kidron without.
Ezra 6:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Ezra 9:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
Proverbs 6:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.
Proverbs 24:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The fool also dies in sins; And uncleanness attaches to a pestilent man.
Jeremiah 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burned incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink offerings to strange gods.
Jeremiah 39:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.
Lamentations 1:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her uncleanness is before her feet; She remembered not her last end; She has lowered her boasting tone, There is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction: For the enemy has magnified himself.
Ezekiel 4:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then I said, Not so, Lord God of Israel: surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness; nor have I eaten that which died of itself or was torn of beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.
Ezekiel 7:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.
Ezekiel 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon it.
Ezekiel 22:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In thee they have uncovered the father’s shame; and in thee they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness.
Ezekiel 22:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and thy uncleanness shall be removed out of thee.
Ezekiel 24:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,
Ezekiel 36:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt upon their land, and defiled it by their way, and with their idols, and with their uncleannesses; and their way was before me like the uncleanness of a removed woman.
Ezekiel 36:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.
Ezekiel 36:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and multiply it, and will not bring famine upon you.
Ezekiel 39:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from them.
Hosea 2:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.
Micah 2:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Arise thou, and depart; for this is not thy rest because of uncleanness: ye have been utterly destroyed;
Nahum 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.
Matthew 23:27 New Testament, KJV
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Romans 1:24 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 6:19 New Testament, KJV
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
2 Corinthians 12:21 New Testament, KJV
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Galatians 5:19 New Testament, KJV
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 4:19 New Testament, KJV
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Ephesians 5:3 New Testament, KJV
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Colossians 3:5 New Testament, KJV
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Thessalonians 2:3 New Testament, KJV
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians 4:7 New Testament, KJV
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1 Esdras 1:40 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore against him Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon.
1 Esdras 1:47 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and he did evil also in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremiah from the mouth of the Lord.
1 Esdras 8:66 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
1 Esdras 8:80 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yea, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us favored before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food;
1 Esdras 8:84 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.
Tobit 3:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
1 Maccabees 13:48 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yea, he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed such men there as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwelling place for himself.
1 Maccabees 14:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and Beth-zur, and the tower, out of the which he took all uncleanness, neither was there any that resisted him.
3 Maccabees 2:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say,
Wisdom of Solomon 2:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: He abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: He pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, And maketh his boast that God is his father.
1 Enoch 5:4 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words With your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
1 Enoch 10:11 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
that each one of them will live five hundred years.' And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves
1 Enoch 10:20 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth
1 Enoch 10:22 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G167, grouped by book.

Leviticus 18 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Ephesians 2 usages, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 2 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 4 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G167 FAQ

What does akatharsia (ἀκαθαρσία) mean?

Akatharsia (Strong's G167) is a Greek word most simply glossed "uncleanness". akatharsia (ak-ath-ar-see'-ah) n. 1. impurity (the quality) {physically or morally}

How many times is akatharsia (ἀκαθαρσία) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 66 linked usages for Strong's G167 across 25 books.

Where can I study akatharsia (ἀκαθαρσία) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G167 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate akatharsia (ἀκαθαρσία)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as uncleanness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G167 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 42 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 10 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 4 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G167, with linked reader references where each row is available.