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G3430 μοιχεία (moicheía)
Greek
Noun, Feminine
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Quick Definition

adultery

Strong's Definition

adultery

Derivation: from G3431 (μοιχεύω);

KJV Usage: adultery

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

μοιχεία, μοιχειας, ἡ (μοιχεύω), adultery: Joh_8:3; Gal_5:19 Rec.; plural (Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, § 123, 2): Mat_15:19; Mar_7:21. (Jer_13:27; Hos_2:2; Hos_4:2; (Andocides (), Lysias), Plato, Aeschines, Lucian, others.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

μοιχεία moicheia 3x adultery, Mat_15:19 ; Mar_7:22 ; Joh_8:3

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

μοιχεία , -ας , ἡ ( < μοιχύω ), [rn LXX : Hos_2:2 ( H5005 ), Hos_4:2 ( H5003 ), Jer_13:27 ( H5004 ), Wis_14:26 * ;] adultery: Joh_8:3 ; pl . ( v. WM , 220; Bl., § 32, 6), Mat_15:19 , Mar_7:21 ,†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

μοιχεία [page 416] For the plur. of this subst., as in Mat_15:19 , Mar_7:21 , cf. the astrological P Tebt II. 276 .16 (ii/iii A.D.) ἡ δὲ Ἀφροδίτ ]η παρατυγχάνουσα τῷ τοῦ [Ἄρεως πορ ]νίας <καὶ > μοιχείας κατι̣σ̣[τ ]ησιν , Venus in conjunction with Mars causes fornications and adulteries (Edd.). On the OT usage of μοιχεία see s.v. πορνεία . Wackernagel ( Hellenistica, p. 9) conjectures a possible Doric form *μοιχᾱ , adultery.

Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon

μοιχεία μοιχεία, ἡ, "adultery", Plat.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

μοιχεία, -ας, ἡ (μοιχύω), [rn LXX: Hos.2:2 (נַאֲפוּף), Hos.4:2 (נָאַף), Jer.13:27 (נִאֻף), Wis.14:26 * ;] adultery: Jhn.8:3; pl. (see WM, 220; Bl., § 32, 6), Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21,† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (3)

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