moicheias

Strong’sG3430

adultery

stem moichei-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.

AI Summary

Adultery ¹²³⁴. The word denotes the act of adultery, used both in the singular for the act itself and in the plural ¹ (of adulterous acts more generally) ¹.

Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.

The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:

Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full

μοιχεία, -ας, ἡ

(< μοιχύω), [in LXX: Ho 2:2 (4) (נַאֲפוּפִים), 4:2 (נָאֹף), Je 13:27 (נִאֻפִים), Wi 14:26*;]

adultery: Jo 8:[3]; pl. (v. WM, 220; Bl., § 32, 6), Mt 15:19, Mk 7:21.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3430 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmoy-khi'-ah

adultery

Fromfrom G3431;

King Jamesadultery.

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

μοιχ-εία, ἡ,
adultery, Refs 5th 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.

adultery2×adulteries1×

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	moicheias	moicheiais2×μοιχεῖαι
object accusative	moicheian	moicheiain
direct address vocative	moicheiar	moicheiair
of, belonging to genitive	moicheiau	moicheiaiu
to, for dative	moicheia1×μοιχείᾳ	moicheiai

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

moicheistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

moicheia 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

moicheia“adultery”to, fordative singular1×

John 8:3… tois Farisaiois pros auton gunaikan en moicheia katalabirantan kai stēarantois autan en mese… to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them

moicheiais“adultery”subjectnominative plural2×

Matthew 15:19… tau kardiau exercholō dialogismois ponērois, fonois, moicheiais, porneiais, klopais, pseudomarturiais, blasfēmiais.… the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and …

Mark 7:22“adulteries”moicheiais, pleonexiais, ponēriais, dolos, aselgeias, ofthalmos ponēros, …greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy …