adjective
aischrem
Strong’sG150
base, disgraceful
stem aischr-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
αἰσχρός, -ά, όν
(< αἶσχος, shame, disgrace), [in LXX: Ge 41:3 ff. (רַע, רֹעַ), Jth 12:12, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G150 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidahee-skhros'
shameful, i.e. base (specially, venal)
Fromfrom the same as G153;
King Jamesfilthy.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also ός, όν Refs: (αἶσχος):—in Refs 8th c.BC+, causing shame, dishonouring, reproachful, νείκεσσεν.. αἰσχροῖς ἐπέεσσινRefs 8th c.BC+ adverb αἰσχρῶς, ἐνένισπενRefs
II opposed to καλός:
II.1 of outward appearance, ugly, ill-favoured, of Thersites, Refs 8th c.BC+, etc.; deformed, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰσχρῶς χωλός with an ugly lameness, Refs
II.2 in moral sense, shameful, base, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰσχρόν [ἐστι], with infinitive, Refs 8th c.BC+; αἰσχρόν, εἰ πύθοιτό τιςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ αἰσχροῖς on the ground of base actions, Refs 5th c.BC+ —τὸ αἰ. as substantive, dishonour, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἐμὸν αἰ. my disgrace, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ αἰ. virtue and vice, Refs 4th c.BC+ adverb, shamefully, Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative αἴσχισταRefs 5th c.BC+
II.3 ill-suited, αἰ. ὁ καιρόςRefs 4th c.BC+; αἰ. πρός τι awkward at it, Refs 5th c.BC+
III Regul. comparative and superlative -ότερος, -ότατος are late, Refs 1st c.BC+ (formed from a Root αἰσχο-), Refs 8th c.BC+; double superlative αἰσχιστότατοςRefs 6th c.AD+ C. adverb, superlative αἰσχίστωςRefs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aischros | aischras | aischrem3×αἰσχρὸν | aischrois | aischrais | aischreim |
| object accusative | aischron | aischran | aischroin | aischrain | ||
| direct address vocative | aischror | aischrar | aischroir | aischrair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | aischrou | aischrau | aischreu1×αἰσχροῦ | aischroiu | aischraiu | aischreiu |
| to, for dative | aischro | aischra | aischre | aischroi | aischrai | aischrei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
aischr is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
aischrem“shameful”subject or objectdirect singular3×
1 Corinthians 11:6“disgraceful”… katakaluptotō gunaikas, kai keiretar; ei de aischrem gunaika tem keirera ē xurera, katakaluptotōr.If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.
1 Corinthians 14:35“shameful”… en oiko toin idioin androin eperōtalōr, aischrem gar atō gunaika lalarō en ekklēsa.… are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church.
Ephesians 5:12teim gar krufē genorōnteim hupo autoiu aischrem atō kai legarō;For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient …
aischreu“dishonest”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Titus 1:11“dishonest”… oikoin anatrepalō didaskarōntois heim mē datō aischreu kerdeu charin.… be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.