Definition

a stain; i.e. (figuratively) immorality

Etymology

from G3435 (μολύνω);

Word family

• μολύνω molýnō

How the KJV renders it

• filthiness

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.