Word

μοιχεύω

moicheúō · G3431 · Greek · 15 occurrences

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Meanings

to commit adultery, adultery

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

Examples
Matthew 19:18 Then he said to Him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER; YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY; YOU SHALL NOT STEAL; YOU SHALL NOT GIVE FALSE TESTIMONY;
Mark 10:19 “You know the commandments: ‘DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT GIVE FALSE TESTIMONY, Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.’”
Luke 16:18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

15 occurrences in 8 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 8
γαμέωto marry 2
γυνήwoman, wife 1
ἀπολύωto release, to send away 1
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
βλέπωto see 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐνin+ καρδίαheart 1
ἐπίon+ ἐπαυτοφώρῳin the act 1
μετάwith, after+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

With adverbsAdverbs

9 occurrences in 3 groups

μήnot 4
οὐnot 4
ἤδηalready 1

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 4 groups

ἔπωto say 2
λέγωto say 2
εἴδωto know 1
ποιέωto do, to make 1

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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In the other Testament 1 word

נָאַף nâʼaph · H5003 · to commit adultery: נָאַף (nâʼaph, H5003) נָאַף is the direct Hebrew equivalent of μοιχεύω (moicheúō, G3431) μοιχεύω, both denoting the act of committing adultery with identical semantic scope across the LXX translation tradition.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To commit adultery, adultery88.276: This sense denotes the verbal act of committing adultery. Matthew 5:27 recalls the traditional command, “YOU SHALL NOT 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×μοιχεύωmoicheúō · G3431μοιχαλίς moichalís · G3428 · adulteress, unfaithful, adulterous · 7×μοιχάω moicháō · G3429 · to commit adultery, adultery · 4×μοιχεία moicheía · G3430 · to commit adultery, adultery · 3×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon future μοιχεύσω; 1 aorist ἐμοίχευσα; passive, present participle μοιχευομένη; 1 aorist…

future μοιχεύσω; 1 aorist ἐμοίχευσα; passive, present participle μοιχευομένη; 1 aorist infinitive μοιχευθῆναι; (μοιχός); from Aristophanes and Xenophon down; the Sept. for נָאַף; to commit adultery;
a. absolutely (to be an adulterer): Mt 5:27; Mt 19:18; Mk 10:19; Lk 16:18; Lk 18:20; Rom 2:22; Rom 13:9; Jas 2:11.
b. τινα (γυναῖκα), to commit adultery with, have unlawful intercourse with another's wife: Mt 5:28 (Deut 5:18; Lev 20:10; Aristophanes av. 558; Plato, rep. 2, p. 360 b.; Lucian, dial. deor. 6, 3; Aristaenet. epistles 1, 20; Aeschines dial. Socrates 2, 14); passive of the wife, to suffer adultery, be debauched: Mt 5:32a L T Tr WH; (Mt 19:9 WH marginal reading); Jn 8:4. By a Hebraism (see μοιχαλίς, b.) tropically, μετά τίνος (γυναικός) μοιχεύειν is used of those who at a woman's solicitation are drawn away to idolatry, i. e. to the eating of things sacrificed to idols, Rev 2:22; cf. Jer 3:9, etc.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sexual Misbehavior15 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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0