Strong's Concordance aselgeia: licentiousness, wantonness Original Word: ἀσέλγεια, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aselgeia Phonetic Spelling: (as-elg'-i-a) Short Definition: wantonness, lewdness Definition: (outrageous conduct, conduct shocking to public decency, a wanton violence), wantonness, lewdness. HELPS Word-studies 766 asélgeia (from aselgēs/"brutal") – properly, violent spite which rejects restraint and indulges in lawless insolence (wanton caprice). [This is likewise the meaning of 766 /asélgeia in classical Greek (WS, 110).] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 766: ἀσέλγειαἀσέλγεια, ἀσελγειας, ἡ, the conduct and character of one who is ἀσελγής (a word which some suppose to be compounded of the alpha privative and Σελγη, the name of a city in Pisidia whose citizens excelled in strictness of morals (so Etym. Magn. 152, 38; per contra cf. Suidas 603 d.): others of ἆ intens. and σαλάγειν, to disturb, raise a din; others, and now the majority, of alpha privative and σέλγω equivalent to θέλγω, not affecting pleasantly, exciting disgust), "unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence": Mark 7:22 (where it is uncertain what particular vice is spoken of); of gluttony and venery, Jude 1:4; plural, 1 Peter 4:3; 2 Peter 2:2 (for Rec. ἀπωλείαις), 18; of carnality, lasciviousness: 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19; 2 Peter 2:7; plural "wanton (acts or) manners, as filthy words, indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of males and females, etc." (Fritzsche), Romans 13:13. (In Biblical Greek besides only in Wis. 14:26 and 3Macc. 2:26. Among Greek writings used by Plato, Isocrates and following; at length by Plutarch (Lucull. 38) and Lucian (dial. meretr. 6) of the wantonness of women (Lob. ad Phryn., p. 184 n.).) Cf. Tittmann i., p. 151f; (especially Trench, § xvi.). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance filth, lasciviousness, debauchery. From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and a presumed selges (of uncertain derivation, but apparently meaning continent); licentiousness (sometimes including other vices) -- filthy, lasciviousness, wantonness. see GREEK a Forms and Transliterations ασελγεια ασελγεία ασέλγεια ἀσελγείᾳ ἀσέλγεια ασελγειαις ασελγείαις ἀσελγείαις ασελγειαν ασέλγειαν ἀσέλγειαν aselgeia asélgeia aselgeíāi aselgeiais aselgeíais aselgeian asélgeianLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 76610 Occurrences ἀσέλγεια — 5 Occ. ἀσελγείαις — 4 Occ. ἀσέλγειαν — 1 Occ. Mark 7:22 N-NFS GRK: πονηρίαι δόλος ἀσέλγεια ὀφθαλμὸς πονηρός NAS: [as well] [as] deceit, sensuality, envy, KJV: deceit, lasciviousness, an evil INT: wickednesses deceit sensuality envy evil Romans 13:13 N-DFP 2 Corinthians 12:21 N-DFS Galatians 5:19 N-NFS Ephesians 4:19 N-DFS 1 Peter 4:3 N-DFP 2 Peter 2:2 N-DFP 2 Peter 2:7 N-DFS 2 Peter 2:18 N-DFP Jude 1:4 N-AFS |
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