Strong G765ἀσεβής
ungodly
- Transliteration
- asebēs
- Pronunciation
- as-eb-ace'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Detailed definition
ἀσεβής, -ές
(σέβω, to reverence), [in LXX chiefly for רָשַׁע;]
ungodly, impious: Rom.4:5 5:6, 1Ti.1:9, 1Pe.4:18, 2Pe.2:5-6 3:7, Ju 4 15.†
(AS)
(σέβω, to reverence), [in LXX chiefly for רָשַׁע;]
ungodly, impious: Rom.4:5 5:6, 1Ti.1:9, 1Pe.4:18, 2Pe.2:5-6 3:7, Ju 4 15.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G765 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- ungodly7
- be1
- man1
First verses
- Romans 4:5But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
- Romans 5:6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
- 1 Timothy 1:9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
- 1 Peter 4:18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
- 2 Peter 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- 2 Peter 3:7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
- Jude 1:4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Jude 1:15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀσεβ-ής, ές,
(σέβω) ungodly, unholy, profane, sacrilegious, opposed to εὐσεβής, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 132.1, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 9 (_anapaest meter_))]; τὸν ἀσεβῆ, of Oedipus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1382, 1441; σκοπῶν τί ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.16: with _genitive_, θεῶν ἀσεβής)] against them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.8.1; ἀσεβέστεροι περὶ θεούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.27; πρὸς ἀλλοτρίους 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.10.5.)]adverb -βῶς, superlative -έστατα[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 79.9.)]
(σέβω) ungodly, unholy, profane, sacrilegious, opposed to εὐσεβής, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 132.1, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 9 (_anapaest meter_))]; τὸν ἀσεβῆ, of Oedipus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1382, 1441; σκοπῶν τί ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.16: with _genitive_, θεῶν ἀσεβής)] against them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.8.1; ἀσεβέστεροι περὶ θεούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.27; πρὸς ἀλλοτρίους 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.10.5.)]adverb -βῶς, superlative -έστατα[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 79.9.)]