Bible Lexicons

ἀκάίθαρτος , -ον

(< ἀ - neg., καθαίρω ),

[in LXX chiefly for H2931;]

unclean, impure;

(a) physically (LS, MM, VGT, s.v.);

(b) ceremonially: Acts 10:14; Acts 10:28; Acts 11:8, 1 Corinthians 7:14, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Revelation 18:2;

(c) morally: Ephesians 5:5, Revelation 17:4; c. πνϵῦμα , as always in Gosp., Matthew 10:1; Matthew 12:43, Mark 1:23; Mark 1:26-27 Mark 3:11; Mark 3:30 Mark 5:2; Mark 5:8; Mark 5:13 Mark 6:7 Mark 7:25 Mark 9:25, Luke 4:33; Luke 4:36 Luke 6:18 Luke 8:29 Luke 9:42 Luke 11:24, Acts 5:16 Acts 8:7, Revelation 16:13 (cf. Cremer, 320).†

The adjective is found in a moral sense of an unclean demon in the long magical papyrus P Par 5741238 ( = Selections, p. 113). It occurs in the correspondence of the architect Cleon (B.C. 255–4), P Petr II. 4, (3)8 (p. [8]), εἰλήφαμεν δὲ τοῦ ἀκαθάρτου καὶ τὸ [. . ., where the ganger Apollonius seems to be writing about a supply of iron for quarrymen, but the mutilation prevents our determining the reference. Vettius Valens, p. 76.1, has πάθεσιν ἀκαθάρτοις καὶ παρὰ φύσιν ἡδοναῖς, where the ethical sense is completely developed : half way comes Syll 6333 (ii/A.D. according to Michel), where a Lycian named Xanthus dedicates a shrine to Mên Tyrannus and says καὶ [μηθένα ] ἀκάθαρτον προσάγειν · καθαριζέστω δέ ἀπὸ σ (κ)όρδων κα [ὶχοιρέων ] κα [ὶ γ ]υναικός —the impurity is ritual.

 

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