ἀσχημοσύνη
aschēmosýnē · G808 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to act shamefully, indecent behavior, shameful deed
To act in defiance of social and moral standards, with resulting disgrace, embarrassment, and shame
ExamplesRomans 1:27 and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
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shameful state, shameful condition
A state which is or should be regarded as causing shame
ExamplesRevelation 16:15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and people will not see his shame.”)
How it’s used In 2 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
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- κατεργάζομαιto work out, to produce 1
- βλέπωto see 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
- עֶרְוָה ʻervâh · H6172 · nakedness, to have intercourse, to have sex
- The Hebrew term for nakedness or shame that Greek ἀσχημοσύνη consistently renders in Septuagint contexts; both denote exposure, indecency, or shameful uncovering.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Shameful state, shameful condition25.202
- Used of a condition of disgrace, as of the shameful acts between men described in Romans 1:27.
- To act shamefully, indecent behavior, shameful deed88.149
- Used of conduct bringing shame, as of the one who walks about naked in Revelation 16:15.
Word family 51 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀσχημοσύνης, ἡ (ἀσχήμων); from Plato down; unseemliness, an unseemly deed: Rom 1:27; of…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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