Pure
ἀμίαντοςStrong’s G0283amiantos
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Amiantos is the Greek word usually translated “undefiled”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;”
Meaning
Usually translated “undefiled”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- undefiled 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hebrews 2
- James 1
- 1 Peter 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- 1 Peter 1:4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Greek dictionary
ἀμίαντος amiantos · pure
ἀ-μίαντος, -ον (μιαίνω), [in LXX: Wis.3:13 4:2 8:20, 2Ma.14:36 2Mac 15:34 * ;] undefiled, free from contamination (in π., of αἰθήρ; MM, VGT, see word): Heb.7:26 13:4, 1Pe.1:4, Jas.1:27.† SYN.: ἄμωμος, ἄσπιλος (Cremer, 784) (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pure” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PURE, adjective
[Latin purus.]
- Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture; as pure water; pure clay; pure sand; pure air; pure silver of gold. pure wine is very scare.
- Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy.“Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil” Habakkuk 1:13
- Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1:27
- Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics.
All definitions and other forms of “pure”
- Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent.
- Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition.
- Disinterested; as pure benevolence.
- Chaste; as a pure virgin.
- Free from vice or moral turpitude. Titus 1:15
- Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6:20
- Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure
- Mere; absolute; that and that only; unconnected with any thing else; as a pure villain.
PURE, verb transitive
To purify; to cleanse. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.