Strong's #3392: miaino (pronounced me-ah'-ee-no)

perhaps a primary verb; to sully or taint, i.e. contaminate (ceremonially or morally):--defile.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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miainō

1) to dye with another colour, to stain

2) to defile, pollute, sully, contaminate, soil

2a) to defile with sins

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: perhaps a primary verb

Citing in TDNT: 4:644, 593

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

John 18:28: "the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the"
Titus 1:15: "pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;"
Titus 1:15: "mind and conscience is defiled."
Hebrews 12:15: "you, and thereby many be defiled;"
Jude 1:8: "also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion,"