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
Dirtiness (morally)
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ῥυπαρία G4507
Pronunciation rhyparía
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
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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 It moral filth 1× James 1:21
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First aligned row James 1:21
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
James 1
Source forms
ῥυπαρίαν 1x rhyparian James 1:21
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x James 1:21
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Moral defilement or spiritual filthiness, the inward corruption that must be removed for receiving God's word
Strong's G4507
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link James 1:19–21 Source Gloss
dirtiness (morally)
Extended definition Source: 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 corpus Greek 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 1:21 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ῥυπαρίαν ruparian
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 patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Jas 1:21 1×
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:
ῥυπαρός G4508
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain