noun · masculine
moichos
Strong’sG3432
an adulterer
stem moich-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.
μοιχός, -οῦ, ὁ,
[in LXX for נאף;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3432 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmoy-khos'
a (male) paramour; figuratively, apostate
Fromperhaps a primary word;
King Jamesadulterer.
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
adulterer, paramour, Refs 6th c.BC+; κεκαρμένος μοιχὸν μιᾷ μαχαίρᾳ having the head close shaven with a razor, as was done by way of punishment to persons taken in adultery, Refs 5th c.BC+
II generally, paramour, of a sodomite, Refs 3rd c.AD+
III idolatrous person, NT
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 | moichos | moichois2×μοιχοί |
| object accusative | moichon | moichoin1×μοιχοὺς |
| direct address vocative | moichor | moichoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | moichou | moichoiu |
| to, for dative | moicho | moichoi |
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
moicho 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
moichois“adulterers”subjectnominative plural2×
Luke 18:11… tois loipois toiu anthrōpoiu, harpagois, adikois, moichois, ē kai hōs houtos tos telōnos;… not like other men — swindlers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector.
1 Corinthians 6:9… planovōr; oute pornois oute eidōlolatrois oute moichois oute malakois oute arsenokoitois… the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or …
moichoin“adulterers”objectaccusative plural1×
Hebrews 13:4… tas koitas amiantas, pornoin gar kai moichoin krinati tos theos.… will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.