STRONGS G169:
ἀκάθαρτος,
-όν, (
καθαίρω) [from Sophocles down], in the
Sept. equivalent to
טָמֶא,
not cleansed, unclean;
a. in a ceremonial sense, that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law, lest impurity be contracted:
Acts 10:14;
Acts 11:8 (of food);
Acts 10:28;
1 Corinthians 7:14 (of men);
2 Corinthians 6:17 (from
Isaiah 52:11, of things pertaining to idolatry);
Revelation 18:2 (of birds),
b. in a moral sense,
unclean in thought and life (frequent in Plato):
Ephesians 5:5;
τὰ ἀκάθαρτα τῆς πορνείας,
Revelation 17:4 (according to the true reading);
πνεύματα, demons, bad angels [in twenty-three passages of the Gospels, Acts, and Revelation]:
Matthew 10:1;
Matthew 12:43;
Mark 1:23,
26;
Mark 3:11, etc.;
Luke 4:33,
36;
Luke 6:18, etc.;
Acts 5:16;
Acts 8:7;
Revelation 16:13;
Revelation 18:2 (
πνεύματα πονηρά in
Matthew 12:45;
Luke 7:21;
Luke 8:2;
Luke 11:26;
Acts 19:12f,
15f).
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