noun · feminine
aschēmosunas
Strong’sG808
unseemliness, shame, nakedness
stem aschēmosun-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.
ἀσχημοσύνη, -ης, ἡ
(< ἀσχήμων), [in LXX chiefly for עֶרְוָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G808 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidas-kay-mos-oo'-nay
an indecency; by implication, the pudenda
Fromfrom G809;
King Jamesshame, that which is unseemly.
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
want of form, ἀ. καὶ ἀμορφίαRefs 4th c.BC+
2 ungracefulness, Refs 5th c.BC+; awkwardness, Refs; disfigurement, τοῦ προσώπου, in playing on the flute, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 ἀ. φέρει brings discredit, disgrace, Refs
II in moral sense, indecorum, obscene or disgraceful conduct, NT+1st c.AD+
III euphemistic for αἰδοῖον, LXX; for ἀπόπατος,LXX
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aschēmosunas | aschēmosunais |
| object accusative | aschēmosunan2×ἀσχημοσύνην | aschēmosunain |
| direct address vocative | aschēmosunar | aschēmosunair |
| of, belonging to genitive | aschēmosunau | aschēmosunaiu |
| to, for dative | aschēmosuna | aschēmosunai |
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
aschēmosuna 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
aschēmosunan“shame”objectaccusative singular2×
Romans 1:27“shameless acts”… eis allēloin, arsenois en arsenoi tan aschēmosunan katergazorōntois kai tan antimisthian han date …… with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their …
Revelation 16:15… mē gumnos peripatateiō kai blepaleiō tan aschēmosunan autou… not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”