to profane
koinoo describes making a person or sacred place unclean or profaned, especially through what proceeds from within.
The dominant use describes what makes a person unclean: the sayings in Mark and Matthew contrast what enters a person with what comes out, locating the defiling effect in the latter. Other occurrences concern calling what God has cleansed common, persons described as having become profane, and an accusation that a holy place has been profaned.
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Making a person unclean through what comes out · dominant
In Mark 7:15, the aorist infinitive occurs in the contrast between what enters a human and the things that come out; the APB renders the latter as what “profane the human.” Mark 7:20 and Mark 7:23 use present active forms for what comes out from the human, while Matthew 15:18 and Matthew 15:20 connect the effect with things from the heart and mouth.
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Treating or becoming profane · occasional
Acts 10:15 and Acts 11:9 address a second-person present active form in the command not to call common what God has cleansed. Acts 21:28 uses a perfect active form in the accusation that Greeks were brought into the sacred place, and Hebrews 9:13 describes, with a perfect passive participle, those who have become profane.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses “profane,” “defiles,” “common,” and “have become profane” in these verses. These renderings show the clauses' presentation rather than fixed English equivalents for each form.