Strong G3430μοιχεία

adultery

Transliteration
moicheia
Pronunciation
moy-khi'-ah
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G3431; adultery: - adultery.

Detailed definition

μοιχεία, -ας, ἡ
(μοιχύω), [rn LXX: Hos.2:2 (נַאֲפוּף), Hos.4:2 (נָאַף), Jer.13:27 (נִאֻף), Wis.14:26 *;]
adultery: Jhn.8:3; pl. (see WM, 220; Bl., § 32, 6), Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21,†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3430 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • adultery4

First verses

  1. Matthew 15:19
    For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  2. Mark 7:21
    For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
  3. John 8:3
    And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
  4. Galatians 5:19
    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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Detailed Greek dictionary
μοιχ-εία, ἡ,
adultery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.10, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.36, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 443a (_plural_); μοιχείας γραφαί 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc., 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see at {πέμπτῃ φθίνοντος}.)]