What does ῥυπαρία (rhyparía) mean in the Bible?
ῥυπαρία (rhyparía): Moral defilement or spiritual filthiness, the inward corruption that must be removed for receiving God's word
Greek · G4507
ῥυπαρία
ῥυπαρία (rhyparía): Moral defilement or spiritual filthiness, the inward corruption that must be removed for receiving God's word
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ῥυπαρίαG4507
Pronunciationrhyparía
What does ῥυπαρία (rhyparía) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G4507?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include moral filth (1).
Where does ῥυπαρία (rhyparía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at James 1:21. Its strongest book concentrations include James (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itmoral filth1×James 1:21
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First aligned rowJames 1:21
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
James1
Source forms
ῥυπαρίαν1xrhyparianJames 1:21
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular1xJames 1:21
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Moral defilement or spiritual filthiness, the inward corruption that must be removed for receiving God's word
Strong'sG4507
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Study linkJames 1:19–21Source Gloss
dirtiness (morally)
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Moral defilement or spiritual filthiness, the inward corruption that must be removed for receiving God's word
(ῥυπαρός) filthiness: metaphorically, of moral defilement, Jas.1:21.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
James 1:21Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ῥυπαρίανruparian
filth, pollution
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · FeminineJas 1:211×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
filthiness, moral impurity
Word Origins
ῥυπαρία is built from this root:
ῥυπαρόςG4508