Word Summary
alisgēma: pollution
Original Word: ἀλίσγημαTransliteration: alisgēma
Phonetic Spelling: (al-is'-ghem-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: pollution
Meaning: pollution
Strong's Concordance
pollution.
From alisgeo (to soil); (ceremonially) defilement -- pollution.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 234: ἀλίσγημαἀλίσγημα,
(τος,
τό (
ἀλισγέω, to pollute, which occurs Sir. 40:29;
Daniel 1:8;
Malachi 1:7, 12; akin to
ἀλίνω,
ἀλινέω to besmear (Latin
linere, cf. Lob. Pathol. Element., p. 21; Rhemat., p. 123;
Stephanus Thesaurus,
Hesychius, Sturz, De Dial. Alex., p. 145)),
pollution, contamination:
Acts 15:20 (
τοῦ ἀπέχεσθαι κτλ. to beware of pollution from the use of meats left from the heathen sacrifices, cf.
Acts 15:29). Neither
ἀλισγέω nor
ἀλίσγημα occurs in Greek writings.