akatharsia · impurity

What it means

akatharsia (ἀκαθαρσία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “impurity”.

Uncleanness, above all moral and sexual impurity.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is impure, like dead people's bones.
2. A soiled life, above all sexually.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• impurity ×9
• uncleanness ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Romans×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×2
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×2

• Matthew 23:27

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of all uncleanness.

• Romans 1:24

  Therefore God handed them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

• Romans 6:19

  I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity for iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

• 2 Corinthians 12:21

  that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned before and have not changed their minds about the impurity and sexual immorality and debauchery that they practiced.

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

• Ephesians 4:19

  who, having become callous, gave over themselves to debauchery for the practice of every impurity with greed.

• Ephesians 5:3

  But sexual immorality and all impurity or greed, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

• Colossians 3:5

  So put to death the members that are on the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry;

• 1 Thessalonians 2:3

  For our encouragement did not come from error or from impurity, nor was it in deceit,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:7

  For God did not call us to impurity but in sanctification.