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Strong's G3392 μιαίνω (miaino)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3392 — yerach (“Jerah”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3392
Language Greek
Linked Usages 116
Books 25

Strong's G3392 Quick Answer

Strong's G3392 μιαίνω (miaino) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. miaino (mee-ai'-no) v. 1. to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally) [perhaps a primary verb] It has 116 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include defile. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
miaino (mee-ai'-no) v. 1. to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally) [perhaps a primary verb]
Usage
116 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
defile

Meaning and Definition

miaino (mee-ai'-no) v. 1. to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally) [perhaps a primary verb] KJV: defile

Original Word
μιαίνω
Transliteration
miaino
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3392. 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)

to stain

Usage: μιαίνω [in LXX chiefly for טָמֵא ;] __1. to dye or stain. __2. to stain, defile, soil; __(a) in physical sense; __(b) in moral sense : Tit.1:15, Heb.12:15, Ju 8; __(with) in ritual sense (cf. Lev.22:5, al.): Jhn.18:28.† SYN.: μολύνω, to besmear, which also differs from μ. in that it is never used, as μ. in its primary meaning, in an honourable sense (cf. Tr., Syn., § xxxi) (AS)

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How Strong's G3392 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render miaino, 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.

defile Jude 1:8

How Strong's G3392 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, 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 100 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 G3392 (μιαίνω) appears 122 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3392 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 G3392 in the New Testament

4 indexed usages in New Testament.

John 18:28 KJV

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

Titus 1:15 KJV

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Hebrews 12:15 KJV

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Strong's G3392 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

100 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 34:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob heard that the son of Hamor had defiled Dinah his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the plain). And Jacob was silent until they came.

Genesis 34:13 Septuagint / Brenton

And the sons of Jacob answered to Shechem and Hamor his father craftily, and spoke to them, because they had defiled Dinah their sister.

Genesis 34:27 Septuagint / Brenton

But the sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dinah their sister.

Strong's G3392 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

11 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

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.

Judith 9:8 Septuagint / Brenton

Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.

1 Maccabees 1:46 Septuagint / Brenton

and pollute the sanctuary and holy people:

Strong's G3392 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 12:4 Septuagint / Brenton

called me -Enoch the scribe- and said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves

Usage Excerpts

First 116 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3392.

Genesis 34:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob heard that the son of Hamor had defiled Dinah his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the plain). And Jacob was silent until they came.
Genesis 34:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sons of Jacob answered to Shechem and Hamor his father craftily, and spoke to them, because they had defiled Dinah their sister.
Genesis 34:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and ravaged the city wherein they had defiled Dinah their sister.
Genesis 49:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou wast insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, For thou wentest up to the bed of thy father; Then thou defiledst the couch, whereupon thou wentest up.
Exodus 20:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou wilt make to me an altar of stones, thou shalt not build them hewn stones; for thou hast lifted up thy tool upon them, and they are defiled.
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 11:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And by these ye shall be defiled; everyone that touches their carcasses shall be unclean till the evening.
Leviticus 11:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall not defile your souls with any of the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and ye shall not be polluted with them, and ye shall not be unclean by them.
Leviticus 11:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I am the Lord your God; and ye shall be sanctified, and ye shall be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy; and ye shall not defile your souls with any of the reptiles creeping upon the earth.
Leviticus 13:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall view the spot in the skin of his flesh; and if the hair in the spot be changed to white, and the appearance of the spot be below the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look upon it, and pronounce him unclean.
Leviticus 13:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the mark have spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
Leviticus 13:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
it is a leprosy waxing old in the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall separate him, because he is unclean.
Leviticus 13:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But on whatsoever day the quick flesh shall appear on him, he shall be pronounced unclean.
Leviticus 13:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall look upon the sound flesh, and the sound flesh shall prove him to be unclean; for it is unclean, it is a leprosy.
Leviticus 13:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the priest shall look, and, behold, if the appearance be beneath the skin, and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; because it is a leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.
Leviticus 13:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if it manifestly spread over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy; it has broken out in the ulcer.
Leviticus 13:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the priest shall look upon him, and, behold, if the hair being white is changed to a bright color, and its appearance is lower than the skin, it is a leprosy; it has broken out in the inflammation, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy.
Leviticus 13:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall look upon him on the seventh day; and if the spot be much spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.
Leviticus 13:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the priest shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the appearance of it be beneath the skin, and in it there be thin yellowish hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scurf, it is a leprosy of the head or a leprosy of the beard.
Leviticus 13:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
he is a leprous man: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean, his plague is in his head.
Leviticus 13:59 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the plague of leprosy of a woolen or linen garment, either of the warp, or woof, or any leathern article, to pronounce it clean or unclean.
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 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.
Leviticus 18:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drive out before you,
Leviticus 18:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.
Leviticus 18:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
(for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled),
Leviticus 18:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.
Leviticus 18:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall keep mine ordinances, that ye may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time: and ye shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and profane the name of them that are consecrated to me.
Leviticus 21:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt tell them that they shall not defile themselves in their nation for the dead,
Leviticus 21:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and for a virgin sister that is near to one, that is not espoused to a man; for these one shall defile himself.
Leviticus 21:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall not defile himself suddenly among his people to profane himself.
Leviticus 21:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother.
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:
Leviticus 22:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall not eat that which dies of itself, or is taken of beasts, so that he should be polluted by them: I am the Lord.
Numbers 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whether male or female, send them forth out of the camp; and they shall not defile their camps in which I dwell among them.
Numbers 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and supposing anyone shall lie with her carnally, and the thing shall be hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she should conceal it and be herself defiled, and there be no witness with her, and she should not be taken;
Numbers 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she should not be defiled;
Numbers 5:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.
Numbers 5:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if being a married woman thou hast transgressed, or been polluted, and anyone has lain with thee, beside thy husband:
Numbers 5:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have altogether escaped the notice of her husband, then the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her; and she shall swell in her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be for a curse in the midst of her people.
Numbers 5:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed.
Numbers 5:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of jealousy, wherein a married woman should happen to transgress, and be defiled;
Numbers 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
to his father or his mother, or to his brother or his sister; he shall not defile himself for them, when they have died, because the vow of God is upon him on his head.
Numbers 6:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone should die suddenly by him, immediately the head of his vow shall be defiled; and he shall shave his head in whatever day he shall be purified: on the seventh day he shall be shaved.
Numbers 6:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in which he was consecrated to the Lord, all the days of his vow; and he shall bring a lamb of a year old for a trespass offering; and the former days shall not be reckoned, because the head of his vow was polluted.
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.
Numbers 19:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatever man shall be defiled and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the holy things of the Lord, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
Numbers 35:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall not defile the land whereon ye dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 21:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but ye shall by all means bury it in that day; for everyone that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and ye shall by no means defile the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 24:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.
4 Kingdoms 23:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought up all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests burned incense, from Geba even to Beersheba; and he pulled down the house of the gates that was by the door of the gate of Joshua the ruler of the city, on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
4 Kingdoms 23:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he defiled Topheth which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, constructed for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through fire to Molech.
4 Kingdoms 23:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king defiled the house that was before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the mount of Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and to Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.
4 Kingdoms 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Josiah turned aside, and saw the tombs that were there in the city, and sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God spoke, when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the feast: and he turned and raised his eyes to the tomb of the man of God that spoke these words.
2 Chronicles 29:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and all the vessels which King Ahaz polluted in his reign, in his apostasy, we have prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 36:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
was in Jerusalem.
Job 31:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, In the case of defiling another man’s wife.
Psalms 78:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; They have polluted thy holy temple; They have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.
Psalms 105:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And was polluted with their works; And they went a-whoring with their own devices.
Isaiah 43:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the princes have defiled my sanctuaries: so I gave Jacob to enemies to destroy, and Israel to reproach.
Isaiah 47:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have been provoked with my people; thou hast defiled mine inheritance: I gave them into thy hand, but thou didst not extend mercy to them: thou madest the yoke of the aged man very heavy,
Jeremiah 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 2:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How wilt thou say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold thy ways in the burial ground, and know what thou hast done: her voice has howled in the evening:
Jeremiah 2:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou hast done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;
Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man’s, shall she return to him anymore at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? yet thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 7:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the children of Judah have wrought evil before me, saith the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to defile it.
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 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord; surely, because thou hast defiled my holy things with all thine abominations, I also will reject thee; mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.
Ezekiel 7:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.
Ezekiel 7:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.
Ezekiel 9:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and smite.
Ezekiel 14:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbor’s wife, and shall not draw nigh to her that is removed,
Ezekiel 18:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Ezekiel 18:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and if he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Ezekiel 20:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said to them, Let every one cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 20:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them.
Ezekiel 20:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon everyone that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.
Ezekiel 20:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Do ye pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do ye go a-whoring after their abominations,
Ezekiel 20:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and do ye pollute yourselves with the firstfruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.
Ezekiel 20:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall there remember your ways, and your devices wherewith ye defiled yourselves; and ye shall bewail yourselves for all your wickedness.
Ezekiel 22:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself;
Ezekiel 22:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in their blood which thou hast shed, thou hast transgressed; and in thy devices which thou hast formed, thou hast polluted thyself; and thou hast brought nigh thy days, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,
Ezekiel 22:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor’s wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in thee they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.
Ezekiel 23:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices.
Ezekiel 23:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I saw that they were defiled, that the two had one way.
Ezekiel 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.
Ezekiel 23:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
brought this upon thee, in that thou wentest a-whoring after the nations, and didst defile thyself with their devices.
Ezekiel 23:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 24:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her scum shall become shameful, because thou didst defile thyself: and what if thou shalt be purged no more until I have accomplished my wrath?
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 37:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.
Ezekiel 44:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall not go in to the dead body of a man to defile themselves: only a priest may defile himself for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, or for a brother, or for his sister, who has not been married.
Hosea 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Judah are defiled;
Hosea 9:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to him, but as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord.
Haggai 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Haggai said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.
Haggai 2:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and ye have hated him that reproved in the gates.
John 18:28 New Testament, KJV
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Titus 1:15 New Testament, KJV
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Hebrews 12:15 New Testament, KJV
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Jude 1:8 New Testament, KJV
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
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.
Judith 9:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
1 Maccabees 1:46 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and pollute the sanctuary and holy people:
1 Maccabees 1:63 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore they chose rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.
1 Maccabees 4:45 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
they thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,
1 Maccabees 7:34 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But he mocked them, and laughed at them, and abused them shamefully, and spoke proudly,
1 Maccabees 14:36 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For in his time things prospered in his hands, so that the heathen were taken out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a tower, out of which they issued, and polluted all about the sanctuary, and did much hurt in the holy place:
3 Maccabees 7:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way;
4 Maccabees 5:36 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Mouth! thou shalt not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.
4 Maccabees 7:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O priest, worthy of the priesthood! thou didst not pollute thy sacred teeth; nor make thy appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.
Wisdom of Solomon 7:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For she is the breath of the power of God, And a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty: Therefore can no defiled thing fall into her.
1 Enoch 12:4 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
called me -Enoch the scribe- and said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3392, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 30 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 14 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 27 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Titus 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G3392 FAQ

What does miaino (μιαίνω) mean?

Miaino (Strong's G3392) is a Greek word most simply glossed "defile". miaino (mee-ai'-no) v. 1. to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally) [perhaps a primary verb]

How many times is miaino (μιαίνω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 116 linked usages for Strong's G3392 across 25 books.

Where can I study miaino (μιαίνω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3392 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate miaino (μιαίνω)?

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Does Strong's G3392 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 100 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 11 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3392, with linked reader references where each row is available.