STRONGS NUMBER G3436


Word Summary
molysmos: defilement
Original Word: μολυσμός
Transliteration: molysmos
Phonetic Spelling: (mol-oos-mos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: defilement
Meaning: defilement
Strong's Concordance
filthiness, immorality

From moluno; a stain; i.e. (figuratively) immorality -- filthiness.

see GREEK moluno

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3436: μολυσμός

μολυσμός, μολυσμοῦ, (μολύνω), defilement (Vulg.inquinamentum); an action by which anything is defiled: with the genitive of the thing defiled, σαρκός καί πνεύματος, 2 Corinthians 7:1. (Jeremiah 23:15; 1 Esdr. 8:80; 2 Macc. 5:27; Plutarch, mor., p. 779 c.; (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 32, 2; 2, 24, 5; etc.); often in ecclesiastical writings.)