ἀκαθαρσία akatharsia

Greek word for “impurity” · Strong’s G167 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

ἀκαθαρσία, -ας, ἡ; (ἀκάθαρτος); uncleanness, impurity; (a) physical (MM, VGT, see word):; (b) moral: 6:19, 5:3, 4:7.; †

How it is translated

Glosses given for akatharsia in context, with how often each is used:

• impurity 10

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 23 (1), Romans 1 (1), Romans 6 (1), 2 Corinthians 12 (1), Galatians 5 (1), Ephesians 4 (1), Ephesians 5 (1), Colossians 3 (1), 1 Thessalonians 2 (1), 1 Thessalonians 4 (1)

Forms

• ἀκαθαρσίας 3
• ἀκαθαρσίᾳ 3
• ἀκαθαρσίαν 2
• ἀκαθαρσία 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with akatharsia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• πορνεία porneia “sexual sin” 4
• ἀσέλγεια aselgeia “debauchery” 3
• πλεονεξία pleonexia “greediness” 3
• ὅστις hostis, hētis “who/which” 4
• ἁγιασμός hagiasmos “holiness” 2
• μέλος melos “member” 2
• ἐπιθυμία epithumia “desire” 2
• παραδίδωμι paradidōmi “to deliver” 2
• σάρξ sarx “flesh” 2

Key verses

The verses using akatharsia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 23:27 — 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…
• Romans 1:24 — 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 — 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…
• 2 Corinthians 12:21 — 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…
• Galatians 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Ephesians 4:19 — Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Ephesians 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Colossians 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is…
• 1 Thessalonians 2:3 — For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
• 1 Thessalonians 4:7 — For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.