Bible Dictionary: Contamination

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

Greek

3394. miasmos -- the act of defiling
... uncleanness, contamination. From miaino; (morally) contamination (properly, the
act) -- uncleanness. see GREEK miaino. (miasmou) -- 1 Occurrence. 3393, 3394. ...
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283. amiantos -- undefiled
... Transliteration: amiantos Phonetic Spelling: (am-ee'-an-tos) Short Definition:
undefiled, untainted Definition: undefiled, untainted, free from contamination. ...
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55. hagnos -- purely, with pure motives
... honestly. Cognate: 55 (an adverb) -- sincerely, without inner contamination
(duplicity). It only occurs in Phil 1:17. See 53 (). ...
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Library

And Some Indeed, who are Used to Excuse their Own Sins...
... whose devilish devices the undoubted truth most easily overthrows; which confesses
that the nature of God is incapable of contamination and corruption. ...
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Comparison of Christ's Power Over Winds and Waves with Moses' ...
... her God was working in Christ; she touched Him, therefore, nor as a holy man simply,
nor as a prophet, whom she knew to be capable of contamination by reason ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter xx comparison of christs power.htm

Whether it is Reasonable in the Platonists to Determine that the ...
... If seeing and being seen is contamination, and if the gods, whom Apuleius himself
calls visible, "the brilliant lights of the world," [353] and the other stars ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 16 whether it is reasonable.htm

Faustus Recurs to the Genealogy and Insists Upon Examining it as ...
... God from being deprived of His kingdom, and that God's substance and nature is so
exposed to change, corruption, injury, and contamination, that part of it is ...
/.../faustus recurs to the genealogy.htm

Index of Subjects.
... contamination theory, [1540]500, [1541]501, [1542]506, [1543]513, [1544]514,
[1545]543, [1546]544, [1547]550, [1548]551, [1549]555, [1550]556, [1551]614, [1552 ...
/.../writings in connection with the donatist controversy /index of subjects 2.htm

The Manichæan System.
... allow him to suppose that the King of Light fully equipped had personally contended
with the King of Darkness, and suffered the loss and contamination of his ...
/.../chapter iii name manichaean system.htm

True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to ...
... which he preached), whose province was the purging of men's minds, that whatever
defilement inveterate error had imparted, whatever contamination in the heart ...
/.../tertullian/on repentance/chapter ii true repentance a thing.htm

Book viii. On the Various Meanings of Words and Names
... [Ps.102(103):3((unknown variant)]. Leprosy is the contamination of sins; in the
gospel: and immediately the leper was cleansed. [Matt.8:3]. ...
/.../eucherius/the formulae of st eucherius of lyons/book viii on the various.htm

Theater-Going.
... are written, in such positions as they must sometimes take, affecting such sentiment
and passions"how can they do this without moral contamination?" And we ...
/.../judy/questionable amusements and worthy substitutes/v theater-going.htm

The Saybrook Platform and the Toleration Act
... the common law of England, Connecticut was determined to protect as much as possible
her own approved church, to keep it free from the contamination not only ...
/.../chapter vii the saybrook platform.htm

Thesaurus

Contamination (3 Occurrences)
... (n.) The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that
which contaminates. Multi-Version Concordance Contamination (3 Occurrences). ...
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Infection (24 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the
result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic. ...
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Treaty (25 Occurrences)
... to make treaties, or enter into covenant, with the Canaanites because of the risk
thereby involved of religious apostasy and moral contamination (Exodus 23:32 ...
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Pollution (5 Occurrences)
... po-lu'-shun (ga'al, "to pollute"; alisgema, "contamination"): In Malachi 1:7, "Ye
offer polluted bread," ie not actually unclean, but worthless, common ...
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Contemn (6 Occurrences)

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Contaminates (1 Occurrence)

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Accursed (26 Occurrences)
... the religious life of Israel, with the further idea of destroying (things) or
exterminating (persons) as the surest way of avoiding such contamination. ...
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Fever (13 Occurrences)
... Typhoid is common in some crowded towns and villages, and considering how little
protected the wells are from contamination, the wonder is that it is not much ...
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Pharisees (86 Occurrences)
... The name means "separatists," from parash, "to separate"-those who carefully kept
themselves from any legal contamination, distinguishing themselves by their ...
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Cruelty (8 Occurrences)
... 30). It is declared necessary in order to guard the Hebrews from
contamination by the sins of the Canaanites (Exodus 23:32). It ...
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Bible Concordance

Contamination (3 Occurrences)

Leviticus 13:49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 13:52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 13:59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Contamination

Related Terms

Infection (24 Occurrences)

Treaty (25 Occurrences)

Pollution (5 Occurrences)

Contemn (6 Occurrences)

Contaminates (1 Occurrence)

Accursed (26 Occurrences)

Fever (13 Occurrences)

Pharisees (86 Occurrences)

Cruelty (8 Occurrences)