noun · feminine
asōtias
Strong’sG810
wantonness, profligacy
stem asōti-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
ἀσωτία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἀ- neg., σώζω), [in LXX: Pr 28:7 (זלל), II Mac 6:4*;]
SYN.: ἀσέλγεια, q.v.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G810 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
prodigality, wastefulness, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 profligacy, NT+2nd c.AD+
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 | asōtias1×ἀσωτία | asōtiais |
| object accusative | asōtian | asōtiain |
| direct address vocative | asōtiar | asōtiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | asōtiau2×ἀσωτίας | asōtiaiu |
| to, for dative | asōtia | asōtiai |
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
asōtia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
asōtias“debauchery”subjectnominative singular1×
Ephesians 5:18“debauchery”… mē methuskovōr oino, en ho atō asōtias, alla plērovōr en pneume,Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
asōtiau“dissipation”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Titus 1:6“dissipation”… tekneim echarōntos pisteim, mē en katēgoria asōtiau ē anupotakteim.… one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
1 Peter 4:4“dissipation”… suntrecharōntoiu vu eis tan autan tau asōtiau anachusian, blasfēmarōntois;… strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless …