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μοιχός

moichós · G3432 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. adulterer, adulteress

    (Derivative of μοιχεύω ‘to commit adultery,’) A person who commits adultery, specifically referring to males, but also including females in generic contexts

    Examples

    Luke 18:11 “The Pharisee stood and began praying this in regard to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, crooked, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

    1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,

    Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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 done to itIt is the object

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
Adulterer, adulteress88.277
This sense denotes a man who commits adultery. Hebrews 13:4 warns, “for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
Word family 5 words

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

μοιχόςmoichós · G3432μοιχεύω moicheúō · G3431 · to commit adultery, adultery · 15×μοιχαλίς 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 μοιχοῦ, ὁ, an adulterer: Lk 18:11; 1 Cor 6:9; Heb 13:4. Hebraistically (see μοιχαλίς, b.)…
μοιχοῦ, ὁ, an adulterer: Lk 18:11; 1 Cor 6:9; Heb 13:4. Hebraistically (see μοιχαλίς, b.) and figuratively, faithless toward God, ungodly: Jas 4:4 R G. (Sophocles, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plutarch, and following; the Sept..)

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

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

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