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μοιχάω

moicháō · G3429 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to commit adultery, adultery

    Sexual intercourse of a man with a married woman other than his own spouse

    Examples

    Matthew 5:32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

    Matthew 19:9 “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

    Mark 10:11 And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
To commit adultery, adultery88.276
This sense denotes engaging in a sexual union that violates the marriage bond. Matthew 5:32 states that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, “makes her commit adultery.”
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μοιχός moichós · G3432 · adulterer, adulteress · 3×μοιχεύω moicheúō · G3431 · to commit adultery, adultery · 15×μοιχαλίς moichalís · G3428 · adulteress, unfaithful, adulterous · 7×μοιχάωmoicháō · G3429μοιχεία moicheía · G3430 · to commit adultery, adultery · 3×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μοίχω: to have unlawful intercourse with another's wife, to commit adultery with: τινα.…
μοίχω: to have unlawful intercourse with another's wife, to commit adultery with: τινα. in Biblical Greek middle μοιχωμαι, to commit adultery: of the man, Mt 5:32b (yet WH brackets); (yet not WH marginal reading), 9b (R G L Tr brackets WH marginal reading); ἐπ' αὐτήν, commits the sin of adultery against her (i. e., that has been put away), Mk 10:11; of the Woman, Mt 5:32a (where L T Tr WH μοιχευθῆναι for μοιχᾶσθαι); Mk 10:12. (the Sept. for נָאַף, Jer 3:8; Jer 5:7; Jer 9:2, etc.; in Greek writers, figuratively in the active, with τήν θάλασσαν, to usurp unlawful control over the sea, Xenophon, Hell. 1, 6, 15; τό λεχθεν, to falsify, corrupt, Aelian n. a. 7, 39.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Sexual Misbehavior4 occurrences

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.

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