Quick Definition
unseemliness, shame, nakedness
Strong's Definition
an indecency; by implication, the pudenda
Derivation: from G809 (ἀσχήμων);
KJV Usage: shame, that which is unseemly
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀσχημοσύνη, ἀσχημοσύνης, ἡ (ἀσχήμων); from Plato down; unseemliness, an unseemly deed: Rom_1:27; of the pudenda, one's nakedness, shame: Rev_16:15, as in Exo_20:26; Deu_23:14, etc. (In Greek writings from Plato down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀσχημοσύνη aschēmosynē 2x
pr. external indecorum;
nakedness, shame, pudenda, Rev_16:15 ;
indecency, infamous lust or lewdness, Rom_1:27
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀσχημοσύνη , -ης , ή
( < ἀσχήμων ),
[in LXX chiefly for H6172 ;]
unseemliness: Rom_1:27 ( MM , s.v. ); euphemism for ἡ αἰσχύνη , as freq . in LXX , shame , nakedness: Rev_16:15 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀσχημοσύνη [page 88]
For ἀ . in Rom_1:27 = opus obscaenum , Lietzmann ( HZNT III. i. ad l. ) refers to Philo Legg. Alleg. II. 66, p. 78 τῆς . . ἀναισχυντίας παραδείγματα αἱ ἀσχημοσύναι πᾶσαι : cf. III. 158, p. 118. Vettius Valens p. 61 .31 ἐν ἀσχημοσύναις καὶ κατακρίσεσι , apparently scandals and condemnations.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀσχημοσύνη [Etym: ἀσχήμων] "want of form, ungracefulness", Plat. : in moral sense, "indecorum", id=Plat.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀσχημοσύνη, -ης, ή
(ἀσχήμων), [in LXX chiefly for עֶרְוָה ;]
unseemliness: Rom.1:27 (MM, see word); euphemism for ἡ αἰσχύνη, as frequently in LXX, shame, nakedness: Rev.16:15.†
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