Miasma means “pollution” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3393 — yerach (“month”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3393 μίασμα (miasma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. miasma (mee'-as-mah) n. 1. (morally) foulness (properly, the effect) [from G3392 ("miasma")] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include pollutions. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
miasma (mee'-as-mah) n. 1. (morally) foulness (properly, the effect) [from G3392 ("miasma")] KJV: pollution Root(s): G3392
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3393. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
defilement
Usage: μίασμα, -τος, τό (μιαίνω), chiefly in trag. and late writers; [in LXX: Lev.7:8, 18, (פִּגּוּל), Jer.32:34 (שִׁקּוּץ), Eze.33:31 (בֶּצַע), Jdth.9:2, 4 13:16, 1Ma.13:50 * ;] a stain, defilement: pl., 2Pe.2:20.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render miasma, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. 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.
Strong's G3393 (μίασμα) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if he do at all eat of the flesh on the third day, it shall not be accepted for him that offers: it shall not be reckoned to him, it is pollution; and whatsoever soul shall eat of it, shall bear his iniquity.
And they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.
They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:
and hast given their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among thy dear children; which were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon thee for aid: O God, O my God, hear me also a widow.
As the Lord liveth, who hath kept me in my way that I went, my countenance hath deceived him to his destruction, and yet hath he not committed sin with me, to defile and shame me.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3393.
And if he do at all eat of the flesh on the third day, it shall not be accepted for him that offers: it shall not be reckoned to him, it is pollution; and whatsoever soul shall eat of it, shall bear his iniquity.
And they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.
They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:
and hast given their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among thy dear children; which were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon thee for aid: O God, O my God, hear me also a widow.
As the Lord liveth, who hath kept me in my way that I went, my countenance hath deceived him to his destruction, and yet hath he not committed sin with me, to defile and shame me.
Then cried they to Simon, beseeching him to be at one with them: which thing he granted them; and when he had put them out from thence, he cleansed the tower from pollutions;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3393, grouped by book.
Miasma (Strong's G3393) is a Greek word most simply glossed "pollution". miasma (mee'-as-mah) n. 1. (morally) foulness (properly, the effect) [from G3392 ("miasma")]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G3393 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3393 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pollutions. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3393, with linked reader references where each row is available.