μοιχαλίς
moichalís · G3428 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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adulteress
(Derivative of μοιχεύω ‘to commit adultery,’) A woman who commits adultery
ExamplesRomans 7:3 So then, if while her husband is alive she gives herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she gives herself to another man.
2 Peter 2:14 having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children;
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unfaithful, adulterous
(A figurative extension of meaning of the substantive μοιχαλίς ‘adulteress,’) Pertaining to being unfaithful to one’s earlier and true beliefs
ExamplesMatthew 12:39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign; and so no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet;
Matthew 16:4 “An evil and adulterous generation wants a sign; and so a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away.
Mark 8:38 “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
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In the other Testament 1 word
- נָאַף nâʼaph · H5003 · to commit adultery
- Hebrew verb נָאַף denotes the act of committing adultery, while Greek noun μοιχαλίς specifically denotes the female participant (adulteress); the LXX rendering reflects standard Hebrew verb-to-Greek noun patterns in moral-legal contexts where the Hebrew verbal root encompasses both the act and its agents.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unfaithful, adulterous31.101
- This sense denotes spiritual unfaithfulness, applied figuratively to an entire generation. Matthew 12:39 has Jesus answer, “An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign.”
- Adulteress88.278
- This sense denotes a woman who commits adultery. James 4:4 rebukes its readers, “You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God?”
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μοιχαλίδος, ἡ (μοιχός), a word unknown to the earlier writers but found in Plutarch,…
a. properly: Rom 7:3; ὀφθαλμοί μεστοί μοιχαλίδος, eyes always on the watch for an adulteress, or from which adulterous desire beams forth, 2 Pet 2:14.
b. As the intimate alliance of God with the people of Israel was likened to a marriage, those who relapse into idolatry are said to commit adultery or play the harlot (Ezek 16:15ff; 23:43ff, etc.); hence, μοιχαλίς is figuratively equivalent to faithless to God, unclean, apostate: Jas 4:4 (where cf. Alford); as an adjective (cf. Matthiae, § 429, 4), γενεά... μοιχαλίς: Mt 12:39; Mt 16:4; Mk 8:38. (Cf. Clement of Alexandria, strom. vi. c. 16 § 146, p. 292, 5 edition Sylb.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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