ἀσέβεια
asébeia · G763 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to live in an ungodly manner, godlessness
To live in a manner contrary to proper religious beliefs and practice
ExamplesRomans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Romans 11:26 and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written: “THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.”
2 Timothy 2:16 But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀποστρέφωto cause to turn away from 1
- ἀρνέομαιto deny 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίon 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐπιθυμίαdesire, lust 1
- ἔργονwork, deed 1
- πλείωνmore, greater 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 4 words
- פֶּשַׁע peshaʻ · H6588 · rebellion, offense, crime
- Greek ἀσέβεια emphasizes impiety or godlessness as violations of divine reverence, while Hebrew פֶּשַׁע denotes rebellion or transgression as willful acts of breaking covenant boundaries; both terms converge on deliberate violation of divine law, making them translation equivalents across Hebrew and Greek contexts.
- חָמָס châmâç · H2555 · violence, goods obtained by aggression
- Greek ἀσέβεια emphasizes religious impiety and ungodliness as defiance against divine order, while Hebrew חָמָס focuses on concrete violent wrongdoing and injustice in interpersonal/societal contexts; both denote wickedness but ἀσέβεια is theo-centric where חָמָס is action-centric.
- זִמָּה zimmâh · H2154 · plan, depravity, wickedness
- Greek ἀσέβεια denotes impiety/ungodliness as violation of divine reverence, while Hebrew זִמָּה emphasizes heinous crime or lewd wickedness, particularly sexual immorality or deliberate scheme-driven wickedness; both overlap in the semantic space of deliberate wickedness against moral/divine order, with זִמָּה carrying stronger connotations of premeditated lewdness or criminal intent.
- רֶשַׁע reshaʻ · H7562 · wicked deeds, wickedness
- Greek ἀσέβεια denotes impiety/wickedness as a disposition or state, while Hebrew רֶשַׁע emphasizes iniquity/wickedness as both condition and action; both terms refer to fundamental moral-spiritual rebellion against divine order, with substantial semantic overlap in their core denotation of wickedness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To live in an ungodly manner, godlessness53.10
- Used of a general disregard for God, as of the ungodliness against which God's wrath is revealed in Romans 1:18.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀσεβείας, ἡ (ἀσεβής, which see), want of reverence toward God, impiety, ungodliness: Rom…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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