μιαίνω

miaivnw miaivnw; passive, 1 aorist subjunctive 3 person plural
mianqw'sin; perfect 3 person singular
memivantai (unless it be better to take this form as a plural; cf. Kr?ger, sec. 33, 3 Anm. 9; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Gram. sec. 101 Anm. 7; Ausf. Spr. sec. 101 Anm. 13; Buttmann, 41 (36); (Winer's Grammar, sec. 58, 6 b.
b.)), participle
memiasmeno" ( R G) and
meiammeno" (ibid. L T Tr WH; also Sap. ; ; Josephus, b. j. 4, 5, 2 edition, Bekker; cf. Matthiae, i., p. 415; Kr?ger, sec. 40, under the word; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 35; Otto on Theophil. ad Autol. 1, 1, p. 2f; (Veitch, under the word)); from Homer down;1. to dye with another color, to stain:
ejlevfanta
foivniki, Homer Iliad 4, 141.2. to defile, pollute, sully, contaminate, soil (the Septuagint often for aMefi): in a physical and a moral sense,
savrka (of licentiousness), ; in a moral sense,
tovn
suneivdhsin,
tovn
nou'n, passive ; absolutely, to defile with sin, passive ibid. and in ; for ayfij>h,, (4); in a ritual sense, of men, passive (,; ,; ).*(Synonyms:
miaivnw,
moluvnw: according to Trench (N. T. Synonyms, sec. xxxi.)
miaivnw to stain differs from
moluvnw to smear not only in its primary and outward sense, but in the circumstance that (like English stain) it may be used in good part, while
moluvnw admits of no worthy reference.)