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μοιχεία

moicheía · G3430 · Greek · 3 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 15:19 “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, acts of adultery, other immoral sexual acts, thefts, false testimonies, and slanderous statements.

    John 8:3 Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of adultery, and after placing her in the center of the courtyard,

How it’s used In 1 role

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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 the act itself, as a violation of the marriage bond. Matthew 15:19 lists among the things that come out of the heart, “evil thoughts, murders, acts of adultery, other immoral sexual acts, thefts, false testimonies, and slanderous statements.”
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×μοιχάω moicháō · G3429 · to commit adultery, adultery · 4×μοιχείαmoicheía · G3430
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μοιχειας, ἡ (μοιχεύω), adultery: Jn 8:3; Gal 5:19 Rec.; plural (Winers Grammar, § 27, 3;…
μοιχειας, ἡ (μοιχεύω), adultery: Jn 8:3; Gal 5:19 Rec.; plural (Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, § 123, 2): Mt 15:19; Mk 7:21. (Jer 13:27; Hos 2:2; Hos 4:2; (Andocides (), Lysias), Plato, Aeschines, Lucian, others.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Sexual Misbehavior3 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.

Sources

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