Strong G153αἰσχύνω
be ashamed
- Transliteration
- aischunomai
- Pronunciation
- ahee-skhoo'-nom-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From αἶσχος aischos (disfigurement that is disgrace); to feel shame (for oneself): - be ashamed.
Detailed definition
αἰσχύνω
(αἶσχος, shame), [in LXX chiefly for בּוּשׁ;]
1. to disfigure (Hom.).
2. to dishonour (Pro.29:15).
3. to make ashamed (Sir.13:7). Pass., to be put to shame, be ashamed: 2Co.10:8; Php.1:20, 1Pe.4:16, 1Jn.2:28; with inf. (M, Pr., 205), Luk.16:3 (cf. ἐπ- (-ομαι), κατ- αἰσχύνω).
† (AS)
(αἶσχος, shame), [in LXX chiefly for בּוּשׁ;]
1. to disfigure (Hom.).
2. to dishonour (Pro.29:15).
3. to make ashamed (Sir.13:7). Pass., to be put to shame, be ashamed: 2Co.10:8; Php.1:20, 1Pe.4:16, 1Jn.2:28; with inf. (M, Pr., 205), Luk.16:3 (cf. ἐπ- (-ομαι), κατ- αἰσχύνω).
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G153 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- ashamed5
- let1
- should1
First verses
- Luke 16:3Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
- 2 Corinthians 10:8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
- Philippians 1:20According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
- 1 Peter 4:16Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
- 1 John 2:28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
αἰσχύνω [ῡ]:
Ionic dialect imperfect αἰσχύνεσκε (κατ-) [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 14.531)]: future -ῠνῶ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 719)], Ionic dialect -υνέω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.53)]: aorist ᾔσχῡνα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.571, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.4, etc.)]: perfect σχυγκα[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 58.16)]:—passive, future αἰσχῠνοῦμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 856, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 200, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 49d, etc., rarely αἰσχυνθήσομαι (see. entry near the end))]: aorist ᾐσχύνθην[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] and Attic dialect, poetry infinitive αἰσχυνθῆμεν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.27:)]perfect ᾔσχυμμαι (see. below [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus I))]:—make ugly, disfigure, πρόσωπον, κόμην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.24, 27, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 529)]; αἰ. τὸν ἵππον give the horse a bad form, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.12.)]
2 mostly in moral sense, dishonour, tarnish, μηδὲ γένος πατέρων αἰσχυνέμεν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.209, compare 23.571; τὴν Σπάρτην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.53; ξενίαν τράπεζαν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 401; τοὺς πρὸς αἵματος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1305; τοὺς πατέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 246d.)]
2.b especially dishonour a woman, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 44, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marcellus” 19, etc.; εὐνήν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1626)]; εἰς τὸ σῶμα αἰ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1311b7; _absolutely_, “Foed. Delph.Pell.” 2 A 12.)]
3 disdain, ἐπιχώρια[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.22.)]
B passive, to be dishonoured, νέκυς σχυμμένος, of Patroclus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.180.)]
B.II to be ashamed, feel shame, absolutely, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.305, 18.12, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.10, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1291.)]
B.II.2 more commonly, to be ashamed at a thing, with accusative of things, αἰσχυνόμενοι φάτιν ἀνδρῶν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.323; τὴν δυσγένειαν τὴν ἐμὴν αἰ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1079: with _dative_ _of things_, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 992, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.9, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.42, etc.; αἰ. ἐπί τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.8; ἔν τινι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.43; ὑπέρ τινος 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.39; περί τινος 33.6. etc.)]
B.II.2.b with participle, to be ashamed at doing a thing (which one does), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 642 (variant), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 540, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 200, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Grg.” 494e, etc.)]
B.II.2.c with infinitive, to be ashamed to do a thing (and therefore not to do it), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.82, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 856, “Ch.” 917, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 414e, “Phdr.” 257d, etc.)]; though this condition must not be pressed absolutely,[Refs (compare “Ap.” 22b.)]
B.II.2.d followed by relative clause, αἰσχύνεσθαι εἰ.. to be ashamed that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 254, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.42; ἐάν.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 21.4; μὴ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 183e, cf. Machoap. 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.579f; ὅτι.. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.23.)]
B.II.3 with accusative person, to feel shame before one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 934, 1074, 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 23.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 216b)]; τοὺς γέροντας (at Sparta) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.180)]; ὅστις γὰρ αὐτὸς αὑτὸν οὐκ αἰσχύνεται, πῶστόν γε μηδὲν εἰδότ᾽ αἰσχυνθήσετα; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 229, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.26)]: with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 415; ᾑσχύνθημεν θεοὺς.. προδοῦναι αὐτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.22; αἰσχύνομαι ὑμᾶς λέγειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.48; αἰ. πρός τινα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1383b12.)]
Ionic dialect imperfect αἰσχύνεσκε (κατ-) [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 14.531)]: future -ῠνῶ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 719)], Ionic dialect -υνέω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.53)]: aorist ᾔσχῡνα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.571, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.4, etc.)]: perfect σχυγκα[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 58.16)]:—passive, future αἰσχῠνοῦμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 856, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 200, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 49d, etc., rarely αἰσχυνθήσομαι (see. entry near the end))]: aorist ᾐσχύνθην[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] and Attic dialect, poetry infinitive αἰσχυνθῆμεν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.27:)]perfect ᾔσχυμμαι (see. below [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus I))]:—make ugly, disfigure, πρόσωπον, κόμην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.24, 27, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 529)]; αἰ. τὸν ἵππον give the horse a bad form, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.12.)]
2 mostly in moral sense, dishonour, tarnish, μηδὲ γένος πατέρων αἰσχυνέμεν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.209, compare 23.571; τὴν Σπάρτην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.53; ξενίαν τράπεζαν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 401; τοὺς πρὸς αἵματος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1305; τοὺς πατέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 246d.)]
2.b especially dishonour a woman, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 44, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marcellus” 19, etc.; εὐνήν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1626)]; εἰς τὸ σῶμα αἰ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1311b7; _absolutely_, “Foed. Delph.Pell.” 2 A 12.)]
3 disdain, ἐπιχώρια[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.22.)]
B passive, to be dishonoured, νέκυς σχυμμένος, of Patroclus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.180.)]
B.II to be ashamed, feel shame, absolutely, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.305, 18.12, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.10, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1291.)]
B.II.2 more commonly, to be ashamed at a thing, with accusative of things, αἰσχυνόμενοι φάτιν ἀνδρῶν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.323; τὴν δυσγένειαν τὴν ἐμὴν αἰ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1079: with _dative_ _of things_, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 992, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.9, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.42, etc.; αἰ. ἐπί τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.8; ἔν τινι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.43; ὑπέρ τινος 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.39; περί τινος 33.6. etc.)]
B.II.2.b with participle, to be ashamed at doing a thing (which one does), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 642 (variant), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 540, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 200, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Grg.” 494e, etc.)]
B.II.2.c with infinitive, to be ashamed to do a thing (and therefore not to do it), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.82, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 856, “Ch.” 917, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 414e, “Phdr.” 257d, etc.)]; though this condition must not be pressed absolutely,[Refs (compare “Ap.” 22b.)]
B.II.2.d followed by relative clause, αἰσχύνεσθαι εἰ.. to be ashamed that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 254, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.42; ἐάν.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 21.4; μὴ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 183e, cf. Machoap. 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.579f; ὅτι.. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.23.)]
B.II.3 with accusative person, to feel shame before one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 934, 1074, 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 23.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 216b)]; τοὺς γέροντας (at Sparta) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.180)]; ὅστις γὰρ αὐτὸς αὑτὸν οὐκ αἰσχύνεται, πῶστόν γε μηδὲν εἰδότ᾽ αἰσχυνθήσετα; [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 229, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.26)]: with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 415; ᾑσχύνθημεν θεοὺς.. προδοῦναι αὐτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.22; αἰσχύνομαι ὑμᾶς λέγειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.48; αἰ. πρός τινα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1383b12.)]